The attached PDF is a paper written by Alison Petch about the events that led to the opening of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford and its early years. It was first published in the Journal of Museum Ethnography, no 19 (March 2007) pp. 101-112. We are very grateful to the Chair of MEG and the Editor of JME for permission to publish this pdf on our website.

AP, May 2010

Opening the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford