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Should We Be Displaying the Dead Bodies of Preserved Ancestors?

Avatar photo by Christina Riggs October 20, 2020September 10, 2021

The bodies of ancient “mummies” made the news again this month, when Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism opened one of the recently unearthed 59 wooden coffins.

Posted inArt

A Treasure Trove of Oddities and Timely Exhibitions at Oxford’s Ethnography Museum

Avatar photo by Melissa Stern September 14, 2018September 13, 2018

Originally defined as an academic museum of Anthropology and World Archeology, the Pitt Rivers Museum has morphed into something much more extensive and meaningful.

Posted inArt

Perfume Bottles, Boats, and Shrunken Heads in a Museum of Everyday Objects

by Christine Colby June 21, 2016June 20, 2016

OXFORD, UK — During a recent visit to London, I took a day trip to Oxford for the sole purpose of seeing one museum: the Pitt Rivers Museum. I’d heard that viewing the collection was like entering a 19th-century Wunderkammer, and that it had an impressive collection of shrunken heads.

Posted inArt

An Exhibition of Fractured and Mended Art

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 27, 2015July 30, 2015

The conservation of artifacts already in museum care is highlighted more often than the repairs creators make to their own objects.

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In Plains Indians Exhibition, Met Museum Favors Beauty Over Context

by Ellen Pearlman April 14, 2015April 16, 2015

The Metropolitan Museum has mounted a show of 137 rare pieces of art of the Plains Indians, on loan from 58 different international collections.

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