Pitt Rivers ‘After Hours’
The Museum will remain open until 19.30 once a month, especially for those seeking a child-free encounter with the collections. At each After Hours event you will be able to take advantage of a free, themed programme (such as talks, music, or screenings) or you can simply enjoy the Museum at your own pace. After 16.30, entry and exit will be via the Museum’s South Door on Robinson Close, off South Parks Road.
Reel2Real: Giving the Pitt Rivers Museum’s Sound Collections a Voice
Wednesday 20 March 2013,
16.30 - 19.30, FREE
Lend us your ears and join us for an evening of sound! We will be launching our fantastic new Reel2Real website, the result of a recent project dedicated to digitizing and cataloguing hundreds of hours of the Museum’s historically important and rare ethnographic sound collections.
Project staff will give talks on the history of the sound collections at the Museum and the digitization process – how do you turn a wax cylinder into an mp3? – and demonstrate how they approached building the website, using audio distribution platform Soundcloud. You will be able to explore the Museum whilst listening to an eclectic playlist from the collection, from century-old recordings made by anthropologist Diamond Jenness in the D’Entrecasteaux Islands off Papua New Guinea, to the sounds of English children’s street games recorded by a parish priest in the 1960s.
