The Board of Visitors oversees the Museum, providing guidance and expertise.
- Sir Jonathan Phillips, (Chair) Warden, Keble College, University of Oxford
- Professor Elizabeth Ewart, Social Anthropology and Fellow of All Souls College, Head of Department School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
- Professor Helena Hamerow, Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, and Fellow, St Cross College
- Professor Paul Smith, Director, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Professor Anne Trefethen, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford
- Professor Nandini Gooptu, Oxford Department of International Development
- Professor Paul Basu, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS University of London
- Ms Sara Wajid, Head of Engagement, Museum of London
- Professor Nicholas (Nick) Thomas, Director, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
- The Proctors and the Assessor, University of Oxford
- Dr Laura Van Broekhoven, Director, Pitt Rivers Museum
- Professor Dan Hicks, Lecturer-Curator, University of Oxford
- Ms Hannah Eastman, Student Representative, University of Oxford
- Ms Iliane Ogilvie-Thompson, Advisory Board Member
- Professor Trish Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
