Press

Journalists should contact press@prm.ox.ac.uk for further details and images concerning the Museum, its collections, research projects, events and activities.

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Mākereti Papakura, the first indigenous woman to study at Oxford, to be awarded a posthumous degree

30 April 2025

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Pitt Rivers Museum returns Badeng Sunhat to the Kenyan Badeng Community in Sarawak, Borneo

24 October 2024

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Living Cultures 2024: Reconnecting with the Objects

30 September 2024

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First Nations Ancestors Returned Home
4 October 2023

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UNMASKED Spirit in the City exhibition opens
30 January 2023

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ancestors Returned Home from the Pitt Rivers Museum and Oxford University Museum of Natural History
10 November 2022

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Marina Abramović @ Pitt Rivers Museum

16 August 2022

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Pitt Rivers Museum Director wins prestigious Kenneth Hudson Award for Institutional Courage and Professional Integrity
9 May 2022

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Innovative Multaka-Oxford refugee project at Oxford University Museums supported by £1m funding from Alwaleed Philanthropies
22 November 2021

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Pitt Rivers Museum opens 'Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power' exhibition
1 July 2021

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Tusks found in 500-year old shipwreck reveal origins of ancient elephants and impact of the ivory trade
17 December 2020

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Pitt Rivers Museum reopening reveals critical changes to display as part of decolonisation process

14 September 2020

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Pitt Rivers Museum and Museum of Natural History to reopen on 22 September
8 September 2020

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Losing Venus Display by artist Matt Smith
23 January 2020

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Maasai Delegates return to Pitt Rivers Museum for next phase of Living Cultures Project
16 January 2020

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Museums Late Night: Diversity
13 November 2019

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Oxford University museums win Collections Trust Award 2019 for project working with forced migrants
16 September 2019

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Sovereign Nation: an international collaboration between the Pitt Rivers Museum, Haida artist, Gwaii Edenshaw & Flintlock Theatre
12 July 2019

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Pitt Rivers Museum wins University Public Engagement with Research Award
10 July 2019

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Multaka-Oxford Volunteer Team wins Museums + Heritage Volunteer Team of the Year
15 May 2019

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Beatrice Blackwood Event 2019: Peter Frankopan talks about The Tyranny of Eurocentrism
3 April 2019

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Calais Jungle Exhibition opens in Oxford

27 March 2019

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Pitt Rivers Museum shortlisted for £100,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019

25 March 2019

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Pitt Rivers wins DCMS/Wolfson Funding for Engaging the Senses

14 Jan 2019

Further Press releases

Maasai Leaders visit the UK to change the way their culture is represented in museums
5 November 2018
Living Cultures Press Release 5.11.19

Pitt Rivers Museum features on Armchair Gallery app
22 Oct 2018
Armchair Gallery Press Release.pdf

Intrepid Women: Fieldwork in Action 1910 to 1957' Exhibition Opens
15 Oct 2018
Intrepid Women Press Release.pdf

Performing Tibetan Identities: Photographic Portraits by Nyema Droma
12 Oct 2018
Beyond the Binary.pdf

National Lottery Funding for 'Beyond the Binary' Project
10 Oct 2018
Beyond the Binary.pdf

Haida Weaver Visits Ancestral Collections in UK
29 Jan 2018
Haida Weaver Press Release (29.1.18).pdf

Pitt Youth Action Team present a Magical Soirée Museum Takeover
04 Oct 2017
MagicalSoireePR.pdf

Pitt Rivers Museum wins Esmee Fairbairn Foundation Award
07 Jul 2017
Esmee Fairbairn PR.docx

Repatriation of Maori Ancestral Remains
25 May 2017
Repatriation Press Release.pdf

Global Heritage Project Funding Award
02 Feb 2017
Global Heritage Project Press Release.pdf

Out in Oxford
19 Jan 2017
Out In Oxford Press Release.pdf

Late Night: Hopes and Fears: Life, Death, Extinction & Invasion
04 Nov 2016
Hopes & Fears press release1.pdf

Pitt Rivers Museum's Cook-Voyage Collection Redisplayed
29 Apr 2016
Cook-Voyage Collection Press Release 1.1.pdf

A PROCESSION by Elizabeth Price, The Contemporary Art Society Annual Award
14 Mar 2016
Elizabeth Price press release.pdf

Architecture for All: The Photography of Paul Oliver
13 May 2015
PRMArchitectureForAll.pdf

Tell Tales: Making Social Networks - A case display of work by RCA students
27 Mar 2015
PRMRCAPR.pdf

DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund award
27 Feb 2015
PRM Press Release27.02.1997.pdf

Containing... - A case display by Rycotewood students
22 Jan 2015
RycotewoodPR 22january2015.pdf

Scarred / Sacred Water - Tanya Harnett
06 Oct 2014
scarred sacred water.pdf

New online Image Gallery: Image/Object/Text
12 Aug 2014
new online image gallery.pdf

Distantly Relative - A case display by Royal College of Art students
30 May 2014
PRDistantlyRelative.pdf

Point of Departure: Photography from Senegal by Mamadou Gomis and Judith Quax
25 Apr 2014
Point of departure.pdf

Pitt Rivers Museum inspires Rycotewood students exhibition
prm inspire rycotewoood students.pdf

Curator nominates 2014 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography
14 Mar 2014
curator nominates 2014.pdf

Inventions for Living - Display case (Lower Gallery) 28 February
28 Feb 2014
PRIL.pdf

Pitt Rivers Museum curator wins Social Sciences Knowledge Exchange grant
10 Feb 2014
curator wins social sciences knowledge exchange grant.pdf

Pitt Rivers Museum wins DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund award
27 Feb 2015
PRMPRDCMS.pdf

Pitt Rivers Museum curator's book wins major US prize
5 Jan 2014
curator wins major US book prize.pdf

Nathaniel Mann Creates Meat Cleaver Music For Residency Finale
2 Jan 2014
Nathaniel Mann creates meat cleaver music.pdf