Currently Closed Traces of the Past Reflections on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Case Installation (Second Floor)
Currently Closed Memoirs in My Suitcase This display presents a selection of photographs, documents and objects which relate to the lives and experiences of Turkish migrant workers in Western Europe, particularly first-generation ‘guest workers’ living in Germany through the 1960s and 1970s. Archive Case (First Floor)
Currently Closed Blow-Up in Bissau: Photography and Museum Revival in West Africa How photographs were used by a West African museum devastated by civil war to revive its collections. Long Gallery
Currently Closed Matt Smith: Losing Venus A series of interventions by artist Matt Smith exploring the impact of British colonialism on LGBTQ+ lives. Installation in Court & Lower Gallery
Monday 13 July - Saturday 18 July The Caretakers Get a glimpse behind the scenes of six museums in lockdown! Hear the people looking after the collections during lockdown talk about their favourite objects in these moving recordings with artist Eloise Moody.
Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum event Wednesday 21 October The World in a Box: Cabinets of Curiosity A talk by Professor Nandini Das, Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture, University of Oxford
Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum Event Wednesday 18 November How the Coconut Shaped Our World Author, Robin Laurance, exposes the little-known adventures of the palm and its fruit!
Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum Event Wednesday 20 January 2021 Curating Culture in a Digital Age Talk by Richard Ovenden, Bodley's Librarian
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