History

• Museums and anthropology in the nineteenth century
  • History of ethnographic collections in Europe
  • History of weapons collections
  • Nineteenth century anthropology
• Typological classification and display of material culture
  • A contemporary view of Pitt Rivers' collection
    • His collection (1)
    • His collection (2)
  • Displaying Pitt Rivers' collection in Bethnal Green and Oxford
    • Bethnal Green and South Kensington Museums
  • Pitt Rivers on typological display (1)
  • Pitt Rivers on typological display (2)
  • Typological displays in context
  • Typological museums: the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, and the Farnham Museum, as discussed in article of 1891
  • Typological display compared with other forms
• Influences on Pitt Rivers' method of classification
  • Christy and Franks
  • Klemm
    

The Pitt Rivers Museum

• The Pitt Rivers Museum in the late 1990s
  • Introduction to the Museum
  • Outline of the Museum in the 1990s
  • Documentation in the Museum
  • More recent displays at the Pitt Rivers Museum
• History of the Pitt Rivers Museum
  • Important members of staff since 1884
  • History of museums and ethnographic collections

Types of museum display

• The Pitt Rivers Museum Upper Gallery display
  • Shield displays at the Pitt Rivers Museum
• A shield exhibition in the Barbier-Mueller Museum

Museum documentation

• Documentation in the Pitt Rivers Museum
• Current information about shields in the Pitt Rivers Museum

Thinking about objects and representation in the museum

• Terminology and history
• Contexts
• Form, function and design
• Representation
• Meaning and interpretation