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SUMMARY:MEG Conference 2026
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 23 & Friday 24 April\, 10.00 – 17.00 \nStandard ticket (2 days) £110 \nConcessionary (2 days) £85 \nInternational – Global Majority £50 \nOnline (2 days) £30 \nAfrican Community Connections: A Celebration (Evening event) Free but booking required \nBook your tickets here \nThe Pitt Rivers Museum is delighted to be hosting the 2026 Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG) Conference. The conference is being organised as part of the Rethinking Relationships project\, an Arts Council England funded project that works across four museums and with partners in Africa and the African diaspora to develop new museum practice. This year’s conference theme is equitable collaboration and asks what does collaboration actually do\, both inside museums and for the communities and individuals who choose to collaborate. What is collaboration able to do/undo? \n  \n\nMEG is a UK-based international collective and subject-specialist network made up of museum professionals\, academics\, researchers\, students\, artists\, activists and individuals who care for and engage with global cultural collections. The Conference provides a platform for current and emerging research on global cultural heritage and fosters exchange in a supportive and collegiate environment. \n  \n  \nFind out more about the free African Community Connections: A Celebration evening event here. \n 
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/meg-conference-2026/
LOCATION:Pitt Rivers Museum\, S Parks Rd\, Oxford
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SUMMARY:Indian Ocean African Migrants Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Room. Free\, no booking required. \nFilm produced by Professor Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya (Institute of Commonwealth Studies\, University of London; Lucy Cavendish College\, University of Cambridge; Faculty of History and African Studies Centre\, University of Oxford) \nThis 43-minute documentary film combines ethnography with history and heritage to narrate the story of African movement eastwards through the Indian Ocean World and beyond to the Pacific Ocean. The film highlights African music as a vibrant legacy through the genres of manja\, kaffrinha and baila in Sri Lanka. Ancient migrations less known than the transAtlantic African movement to the Americas are brought to the fore.  Moreover\, the achievements of some enslaved Africans in the East\, albeit freed\, within the sociocultural worlds that they entered into\, are unparalleled in the Atlantic World. The film will be of interest to those concerned with lost African diasporas globally.  Film producer\, Professor Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya\, will be present at the event and there will an opportunity for Q&A and discussion after the screening.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/indian-ocean-african-migrants-film-screening/
LOCATION:Pitt Rivers Museum\, S Parks Rd\, Oxford
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SUMMARY:Eggstraordinary Easter Eggventure Family Trail
DESCRIPTION:Eggsplore the galleries with an eggciting family trail! Spot the eggs around the Museum and check out some of our eggcellent objects on display! This free trail joins up with the Museum of Natural History. \nTrails are available to pick up from the Pitt Rivers Museum entrance during opening hours.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/eggstraordinary-easter-eggventure-family-trail/
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SUMMARY:A Century of Sound – Live!
DESCRIPTION:Venue\, Timing and Cost\n\nVenue:\n\nPitt Rivers Museum\n\n\n\nDate(s):\n\nFriday\, 27 February 2026\n\n\n\nTiming:\n\n6:30pm-9:00pm\n\n\n\nCost:\n\n£10 (£5 for members of Pitt Rivers Museum)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Century of Sounds is a unique live event\, bringing together the Pitt Rivers Museum’s extraordinary sound collections with 100 artists from around the world to create a new way of experiencing these incredible\, diverse recordings.\nTonight’s show will feature six live performances reimagining different ethnographic sounds from the Pitt Rivers sound collections\, ranging from conch shell performances in Vanuatu to traditional music from Afghanistan\, South Sudanese warrior songs and wedding music from the Himalayas.\nThe live performances will feature ambient electronics\, modern composition\, songwritten reinterpretations and much more – all performed live on the museum’s beautiful balcony space.\nAs well as the live performances\, we will have contributing artists in conversation with the Pitt Rivers curatorial team to discuss creative approaches to ethnographic sound recordings.\nThe entire Century of Sounds project\, featuring 100 compositions from all over the world\, will be available to experience in the museum’s unique “sound shower” – and you’ll be able to create your own remixes of the Pitt Rivers’ sounds with a special sampler setup.\n“You don’t have to be a composer or songwriter…to spend many fascinating hours delving into Sonic Heritage. […] And it’s likely that next tine you visit some famous landmark\, or take a walk in a park\, or simply pop into the supermarket\, your ears will be a little bit sharper about picking up the infinite variety of sounds around us.” – Richard Morrison\, The Times\nThe museum will also be hosting handling sessions with some of its most fascinating instruments.\nAt the Century of Sounds live event\, you can explore the museum at night and experience an incredible range of sound treasures – and artistic reimaginations taking them to an entirely new place. \n\n\n\n\nFurther Information\n\nContact Details:\n\n\nPitt Rivers Museum is accessed via Museum of Natural History\, S Parks Rd\, Oxford OX1 3PP. Contact info@ocmevents.org for further info. Tickets: https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/event/a-century…
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SUMMARY:A Century of Sounds: Live
DESCRIPTION:Experience reimagined global sound recordings from the Museum’s collections through live performance\, artist conversations and interactive activities. A unique after-hours event in collaboration with Cities and Memory and Oxford Contemporary Music. \nA Century of Sounds: Live is a unique live event\, bringing together the Pitt Rivers Museum’s extraordinary sound collections with 100 artists from around the world to create a new way of experiencing these incredible\, diverse recordings. \nThe event will feature six live performances reimagining different ethnographic sounds from the Pitt Rivers sound collections\, ranging from conch shell performances in Vanuatu to traditional music from Afghanistan\, South Sudanese warrior songs and wedding music from the Himalayas. \nThe live performances will feature ambient electronics\, modern composition\, songwritten reinterpretations and much more – all performed live on the museum’s beautiful balcony space. \nAs well as the live performances\, we will have contributing artists in conversation with the Pitt Rivers curatorial team to discuss creative approaches to ethnographic sound recordings. \nThe entire Century of Sounds project\, featuring 100 compositions from all over the world\, will be available to experience in the museum’s unique ‘sound shower’ – and you’ll be able to create your own remixes of the Pitt Rivers’ sounds with a special sampler setup. \nThe museum will also be hosting handling sessions with some of its most fascinating instruments. \nConfirmed Artists \n\nCities and Memory\nCristina Italiani\nKid Kin\nMasako Yokouchi\nRebecca Denniff\nSimon Holmes\nTim Saul
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/a-century-of-sounds-live/
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SUMMARY:Unfinished - a poem by Carol Ann Carl
DESCRIPTION:Unfinished is a poem written by Carol Ann Carl\, a daughter of the island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. With a background in Biochemistry and health\, her community work revolves around Micronesian youth and women. Carol Ann was entrusted to be the keeper of traditional origin stories\, which she shares through her writings. Storytelling and writing are personal forms of pedagogical healing. \nUnfinished was commissioned by Marenka Thompson-Odlum\, as part of the Digital Engagement & Innovation project. It exists both as written ‘concrete’ poetry and as a recorded spoken word piece. Unfinished is written from the perspective of the 31 pearl shell tools that the museum has described as ‘unfinished shell shanks of a fishing hook’ which were taken from the King’s tomb at the archaeological site of Nan Madol on Pohnpei. Nan Madol is a series of more than 100 islets off the south-east coast of Pohnpei that were constructed with walls of basalt and coral boulders. These islets harbour the remains of stone palaces\, temples\, tombs and residential domains built between 1100 and 1500 CE. These ruins represent the ceremonial centre of the Saudeleur dynasty\, a vibrant period in Pacific Island culture. The huge scale of the edifices\, their technical sophistication and the concentration of megalithic structures bear testimony to complex social and religious practices of the island societies of the period. \nThe field collector of the shell shanks\, Frederick William Christian\, was a graduate of Balliol College\, Oxford. In his 1899 book\, The Caroline Islands: Travel in the Sea of the Little Lands\, he recounts the excavation of ‘Eighty pearl-shell shanks of fish-hooks in a more or less perfect condition\, exactly resembling those used all over Polynesia before the coming of the white man. The hook itself was generally of bone\, but we found some fragments of pearl-shell which were clearly relics of the barb.’ \nChristian was also a close friend of Robert Louis Stevenson when he lived in the neighbouring Pacific Island of Samoa. It was Stevenson who encouraged Christian to travel to remote groups of Pacific islands and study their languages. In his books\, he often references Stevenson’s works such as Beach of Falesá.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/unfinished-a-poem-by-carol-ann-carl/
LOCATION:Pitt Rivers Museum\, S Parks Rd\, Oxford
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SUMMARY:Revisiting Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific
DESCRIPTION:In this Archive Case display\, artists Simon Grennan and Solomon Enos re-examine the work of nineteenth century author Robert Louis Stevenson through dynamic graphic storytelling. Stevenson travelled to several Pacific islands before settling in Sāmoa in 1890. Referencing this time in Sāmoa\, as well as Hawai’i and Europe\, related items are brought together from the Museum’s Pacific collections and displayed alongside historical publications of Stevenson’s Pacific stories\, set within new graphic remediations of these stories as comics by British and Hawaiian artists. The illustration-led display explores the journey of ideas across media (remediation) in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries\, Robert Louis Stevenson’s fascination with ‘the foreign’\, and post-colonialism in the Pacific\, including new poetry focused on Hawaiian\, Samoan and European post-colonialism. \nThe display at the Pitt Rivers Museum celebrates work that is part of a wider research project ‘Remediating Stevenson’\, led by a UK research team (Michelle Keown\, Shari Sabeti and Alice Kelly\, Edinburgh University; and Simon Grennan\, Chester University)\, in partnership with the National University of Sāmoa. The project explores Robert Louise Stevenson’s Pacific fiction\, travels\, and friendship with Indigenous Pacific communities. The Remediating Robert Louis Stevenson project is producing the first ever multilingual graphic adaptation of the three stories from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Island Nights’ Entertainments (1893). The project is also commissioning new poetry by indigenous Pacific authors\, and developing a set of accompanying teaching resources for use in Sāmoa\, Hawai’i and Scotland through participatory arts workshops and film-making.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/revisiting-robert-louis-stevenson-in-the-pacific/
LOCATION:Pitt Rivers Museum\, S Parks Rd\, Oxford
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SUMMARY:Hulu Nēnē By MANAOLA
DESCRIPTION:Discover the beautifully sculptural Hulu Nēnē dress by fashion icon Manaola Yap\, a designer and cultural practitioner from Hawaiʻi\, within the Pitt Rivers Museum galleries. \nDisplayed in a case in near the centre of the museum court on the ground floor\, this installation is part of the journey through the Hawaiian landscape offered through the museum’s current special exhibition Hawaii: Ma uk to Ma kai. \nThrough the special collection of their designs\, Manaola honors and pays homage to the great warrior chief\, Kamehameha\, Pai`ea. Born on Hawai`i Island in secrecy and taken to safety by a swift runner to the high cliffs of `Awini Kohala\, the infant king was hidden in the caves to escape the order of Alapa`i Nui that the infant be put to death. The Designer gains his inspiration from ancestral chants\, and stories speaking of the youthful years of the royal child.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/hulu-nene-by-manaola/
LOCATION:Pitt Rivers Museum\, S Parks Rd\, Oxford
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SUMMARY:Hawaii: Ma uka to Ma kai Quilting the Hawaiian Landscape
DESCRIPTION:The ahupua‘a\, a land division extending from the mountains to the sea\, has long been the cornerstone of sustainable land management for Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian) communities. “Ma uka” (toward the mountains) and “Ma kai” (toward the sea) are not merely directional references; they signify a deep understanding of care and access to natural and cultural resources within these regions. \nThrough a combination of contemporary and historic mea noʻeau (skillfully created works) this special exhibition explores the past\, present\, and future of the ahupua‘a system. Hawaiian quilts by the Honolulu-based Poakalani Quilters are curated in narrative that follows the ahupua‘a and the people working with the landscape\, from mountain forests to the coastal waters\, and as well as introducing the Hawaiian royal history of the palatial grounds of their group meeting place. \nJoin us on a journey through time through the ahupua‘a in this special exhibition: witness the disruption of indigenous practices over the past 150 years\, accompanied by a decline in Hawaiian ecosystems\, alongside stories of resilience and restoration. Travelling from Ma uka to Ma kai\, discover efforts of contemporary practitioners who embrace 21st-century sustainable stewardship\, and how looking back towards traditional practices offers a glimpse into a future of abundance and harmony between communities and their environment.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/hawaii-ma-uka-to-ma-kai-quilting-the-hawaiian-landscape/
LOCATION:Pitt Rivers Museum\, S Parks Rd\, Oxford
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SUMMARY:Stories around a Feather Cloak
DESCRIPTION:At the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford\, England\, you can see a beautiful Ahu’ula\, a feather cloak from Hawaii. It is on display on the ground floor\, in a case that has a curtain covering the glass\, which when drawn back reveals the striking yellow\, red and black design worked in tiny feathers. Draw back the curtain to see the feather cloaks on display and read the interpretation to learn how these Ahu ‘ula (cloaks) were used to reinforce political and diplomatic transactions\, solidify relationships\, and engender obligations. This feather cloak inspired the original commission for the Poakalani Quilting group\, who went on to make fifteen quilts for the museum\, which are on display in the special exhibition\, Hawai’i Ma uka to Ma kai: Quilting the Hawaiian Landscape.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/stories-around-a-feather-cloak/
LOCATION:Pitt Rivers Museum\, S Parks Rd\, Oxford
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260406
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SUMMARY:Moʻolelo of the Ahupuaʻa A Re-imagined Journey into a Hawaiian Ecosystem
DESCRIPTION:Mo‘olelo of the Ahupuaʻa tells the various stories of living\, working\, playing and learning within a sustainable landscape.\n\nThese are themes within the epic Hawaiian myth Hiʻiakaikapoliopele\, which Hawaiian artist Solomon Enos depicts in this series of paintings. The heroine Hiʻiaka is on a quest that takes her throughout the various landscapes and worlds of the islands. On the way she encounters an underground hidden world of shape-shifting insect/arachnid-people\, who invite her to share their plentiful resources. \nThe seven paintings that feature in this display are from a wider series\, following from a previous display which highlighted the Hawaiian tradition of mo‘olelo\, a way of storing and sharing Hawaiian cultural memory that guides future generations in understanding the world. In each painting the artist re-imagines this hidden world\, creating an entomological character based on a Hawaiian species. Like these species\, each has an important role to play in this eco-system and has the relevant clothing and implements. This display draws on the theme the Ahupuaʻa – a traditional Hawaiian land division that runs from the mountain tops to the sea embracing the ecosystems within\, and introduces further characters from Solomon Enos’ imagining of the Hiʻiakaikapoliopele.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/mo%ca%bbolelo-of-the-ahupua%ca%bba-a-re-imagined-journey-into-a-hawaiian-ecosystem/
LOCATION:Pitt Rivers Museum\, S Parks Rd\, Oxford
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