4 June – 24 November 2019 Ellen Ettlinger: A Folklorist Flees the Nazis This display highlighted the work of Ellen Ettlinger (1902–1994), a Jewish folklorist who was forced to flee Germany in 1938 due to persecution by the Nazi regime, and who settled in Oxford. Archive Case (First Floor)
27 April – 29 November 2019 Lande: The Calais ‘Jungle’ and Beyond This exhibition reassembled material and visual culture that survives from the Calais ‘Jungle’ as it existed from March 2015 to the demolitions of 2016. Special Exhibition Gallery & Long Gallery
11 February – 31 July 2019 Interaction A display of work inspired by the Museum's objects, designed and made by students at the Rycotewood Furniture Centre. Bow-Fronted Case (Lower Gallery)
12 November 2018 – 19 May 2019 Surveying the Nagas: Visual Representations of India’s Northern Hill-Tribes in the R. G. Woodthorpe Collection This display presented a selection of material from the Pitt Rivers Museum’s R. G. Woodthorpe collection, much of which has never before been on public view. Archive Case (First Floor)
29 October 2018 – 11 March 2019 A Tradition Continued: Iraqw Beaded Skirts Old and New Iraqw skirts are amongst the most elaborately decorated textiles from eastern Africa. Each skirt is unique, the design being a product of the skill of the individual maker and the resources available. Didcot Case (Lower Gallery)
15 October 2018 – 11 March 2019 Intrepid Women: Fieldwork in Action, 1910–1957 This exhibition focused on six of the Pitt Rivers Museum’s most important female collectors and their fieldwork carried out between 1910 and the late 1950s. Special Exhibition Gallery
13 October 2018 – 30 May 2019 Performing Tibetan Identities: Photographic Portraits by Nyema Droma The Tibetan photographer Nyema Droma, taking inspiration from the Museum’s historic collections, created portraits of other young Tibetans that celebrate their experience and challenge stereotypes. Installation in Court & Long Gallery
31 August 2018 – 25 January 2019 Tibetan Objects in Transition The material culture of Tibet has been sought, collected and studied in the West since the middle of the nineteenth century. Display Case C.56.A (Court)
23 July – 28 September 2018 Messy Realities: The Secret Life of Technology ‘Messy Realities: The Secret Life of Technology’ was a special display exploring the work of the research project Studies in Co-Creating Assistive Living Solutions. Didcot Case (Lower Gallery)
28 May – 23 September 2018 ‘A Variety of Portraits of Persons’: From the Official Account of Cook’s Second Voyage to the Pacific (1772–1775) The eighteen prints displayed here were from a copy of ‘A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World’. This was the official account of James Cook’s second famous voyage to the Pacific, from 1772 to 1775. Archive Case (First Floor)
21 April – 28 September 2018 Kwibuka Rwanda Commemorative practices of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Long Gallery
17 February – 23 September 2018 Sunil Shah: Uganda Stories ‘Uganda Stories’ by Sunil Shah was both a subjective journey to recollect the past and a study in photography’s documentary potential to reassemble history. Special Exhibition Gallery
30 January – 13 May 2018 Changing Whilst Staying the Same: How the VERVE Project Transformed the Pitt Rivers Museum From 2012 to 2017 the Pitt Rivers Museum undertook a major £1.6 million project called VERVE funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. This display presented some of the ways VERVE changed the Museum, both visibly and in terms of shifting working practices. Archive Case (First Floor)
24 November 2017 – 4 March 2018 Pigeon Whistles: An Orchestra in Flight This was a project by composer Nathaniel Mann who, intrigued by the Museum’s collection of pigeon whistles on display, devised a work that involved homing pigeons carrying music across the country. Puppet Case (Lower Gallery)
13 November 2017 – 8 April 2018 Tito in Africa: Picturing Solidarity This exhibition presented a selection of photographs showing Marshal Josip Broz Tito taken during official visits to various African countries in the post-war period. Long Gallery
9 October 2017 – 25 June 2018 Made in Imagination These objects were made by artist Anne Griffiths as they might be imagined based on the historical descriptions of real objects found on the Pitt Rivers Museum’s database. Bow-Fronted Case (Lower Gallery)
15 June – 30 November 2017 Identity Without Borders Identity Without Borders Bow-Fronted Case & Puppet Case (Lower Gallery)
15 June 2017 – 9 December 2018 Syrians Unknown Identity Without Borders Case Installation (Upper Gallery)
15 May – 29 October 2017 Camel: A Journey through Fragile Landscapes – Photographs by Roger Chapman This exhibition presented sixty-five monochrome prints by Roger Chapman from his major international photography project premiered at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Long Gallery
20 February – 15 May 2017 Oxfordshire Folklore and Customs: Celebrating the Centenary of Antiquarian and Folklorist Percy Manning A display commemorating the centenary of the death of antiquarian and folklorist Percy Manning (1870–1917), who had a keen interest in archaeology and the history of English customs and traditions. Didcot Case (Lower Gallery)
1 November 2016 – 30 April 2017 Embroidered Visions: Photographs of Central Asia and the Middle East by Sheila Paine This exhibition presented a selection of photographs taken by textile expert Sheila Paine during her travels in Central Asia and the Middle East in the late 1980s and 1990s. Long Gallery
16 August 2016 – 12 February 2017 Stitch of a Symbol – Insights into the Textile Journeys of Sheila Paine This display followed a series of extraordinary journeys by Sheila Paine, whose aim was to discover the origins of an embroidered dress seen in a London textile dealer’s shop in the late 1980s. Didcot Case (Lower Gallery)
18 July – 4 December 2016 Chapman’s Northern Lights: Arctic Skies, Rolling Seas, Changing Landscapes This display presented a selection of original prints taken during the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition to Greenland in 1930–31. Archive Case (First Floor)
12 July – 16 October 2016 Kabuki: On Stage, Behind the Scenes This exhibition presented a selection of photographs by Akio Kushida and Stephanie Berger on kabuki theatre, the popular Japanese style of drama established around 400 years ago that still thrives today. Long Gallery
