Stories
- Article
The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
- Article
A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
- Article
In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
- Article
The intimate and invasive art of ethical taxidermy
Does displaying dead animals bring us closer to nature, or drive us further apart?
Catalogue
- Journals
Annual report / Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History.- Books
A history of the Hope Entomological Collections in the University Museum, Oxford : with lists of archives and collections / by Audrey Z. Smith.
Smith, Audrey Z.Date: 1986
- Ephemera
- Online
Department of Anatomy, University Museum, Oxford : Telephone No. 4440.
University of Oxford. University Museum. Department of Anatomy.Date: [1951?]- Journals
Annual report / University of Oxford, Pitt Rivers Museum.
Pitt Rivers Museum.- Books
Certificate of matriculation at the University of Oxford.
University of Oxford.Date: 188[1]