Pitt Rivers Museum

Pitt Rivers Museum is one of the best museum I have ever visited. I'm inspired when I visited Oxford.

Let me introduce the feature of this museum.

Pitt River museum is known a collection of half a million objects from around the world.

Augustus Pitt-Rivers collected all kinds of artifacts past and presents.

Some of them are from Japan, which is my home country. 

Actually, I saw some of them in Japan, but I found new interests from here watching many items collected same glass shelves.

I suppose some people complain that these artifacts displayed too messy and not well organized. However, I think it is one way to show all motifs fairly even if it is not good looking. There are many museums which consider a lot how show objects beautiful, but Pitt Rivers Museum is little bit different. I feel like to visit my friend who is a collecter and lots of interest to collect every unique artifacts.

Noh mask is used Japanese play that has been performed since the 14th century. I saw it in Japan, but display is not like this. Usually, only two or three type of character play the drama. Actor express emotion with a slight difference of inclination of mask. No mask is very sensitive to use. This museum doesn't care about this matter. It is first time for me to see lots of masks at once. However, I enjoyed looking them like I don't know at all Noh and it is first time to see. I realize some time I see other countries cultural things that way. I only look fragments of them and get inspiration without understanding the essence.

It is interesting experience that look variety of artifacts from all over the world at once.
Let' go to Pitt Rivers Museum!