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Pitt Rivers Museum

Pitt Rivers Museum is a museum displaying the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford in England. The museum is located to the east of the , and can only be accessed through that building.
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  • Opening hours: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Oxford, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford” and “The Pitt Rivers Museum”
  • Address: 3 Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PP

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Oxford University Museum of Natural History and St John’s College.

Museum
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The is a displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens, located on Parks Road in , England.

University
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St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979. Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to provide a source of educated Roman Catholic clerics to support the Counter-Reformation under Queen Mary. is situated 810 feet southwest of Pitt Rivers Museum.

University
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is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its main buildings are on Parks Road, opposite the and the University Parks. is situated 660 feet west of Pitt Rivers Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Norham Manor and Oxford.

Quarter
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The estate is a residential suburb in , . It is part of central North Oxford. To the north is with its crescents, to the east is the , to the south are the University Parks and to the west is Walton Manor, on the other side of Banbury Road.

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is the oldest university city in the , some 50 miles to the west of the capital in its own county of , on the rivers Thames and Cherwell.

Suburb
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is a historic suburb of the English city of . It consists of the streets bounded by the , , Walton Street and Walton Well Road.

Pitt Rivers Museum

Latitude
51.75876° or 51° 45′ 32″ north
Longitude
-1.25506° or 1° 15′ 18″ west
Elevation
226 feet (69 metres)
Inception
1886
Operator
University of Oxford
Open location code
9C3WQP5V+GX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 99873920
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­museum
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Geo­Names ID
10235402
Wiki­data ID
Q1456119
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Uzbek—“Pitt Rivers Museum” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Փիթ Ռիվերսի թանգարան”
  • Basque: “Pitt Rivers Museoa”
  • Catalan: “Museu Pitt-Rivers”
  • Chinese: “皮特·利弗斯博物館”
  • Chinese: “皮特·里弗斯博物館”
  • Chinese: “皮特·里弗斯博物馆”
  • Chinese: “皮特河博物館”
  • Danish: “Pitt Rivers Museum”
  • Dutch: “Pitt Rivers Museum”
  • French: “musée Pitt Rivers”
  • French: “Pitt Rivers Museum”
  • German: “Pitt Rivers Museum”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון פיט ריברס”
  • Indonesian: “Museum Pitt Rivers”
  • Italian: “Pitt Rivers Museum”
  • Japanese: “ピット・リヴァーズ博物館”
  • Japanese: “ピットリバース博物館”
  • Kazakh: “Питт-Риверс мұражайы”
  • Russian: “Музей Питт-Риверса”
  • Slovenian: “Pitt Rivers Museum”
  • Slovenian: “Pitt Riversov muzej”
  • Spanish: “Museo Pitt Rivers”
  • Spanish: “Museo Pitt-Rivers”
  • Swedish: “Pitt Rivers Museum”
  • Tamil: “பிட் ரிவர்ஸ் மியூசியம்”
  • Turkish: “Pitt Rivers Müzesi”
  • Uzbek: “Pitt Rivers muzeyi”
  • “Pitt Rivers Museum”

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