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The coolest museum in the world
Oxford is full of things to see such as medieval colleges and a lovely stretch of the Thames. Of course, you can find similar sights in other parts of England, although not in such a dense concentration that makes Oxford a perfect day trip from London. The one thing Oxford has that is truly unique is the Pitt Rivers Museum.
The Pitt Rivers is laid out the way museums used to be: cabinets packed with artifacts and the walls and even the ceiling adorned with totem poles, statues, shields, spears, and canoes. Even when it opened in the 1880s it was a bit different from other museums, though. Instead of the displays being organized by region and period, they're organized by use. For example, one case has fire-making equipment, ranging from simple wooden tools used by Australian Aborigines to matches from 19th century Europe to rather dangerous-looking lighters from a hundred years ago.
The collection started with a donation in 1884 of 20,000 objects collected by anthropologist Lt.-Gen. Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers. He was interested in how different cultures solved the same problems, such as lighting a fire, creating currency, or dealing with the dead. The collection has now grown to half a million artifacts from pretty much every culture and time period.
You name it, they have it. Egyptian mummy? Check. Inuit snow goggles? Check. Witch in a bottle? Check. Helmet made from a blowfish? Check. They even have a nice collection of shrunken heads.
Gallery: Treasures of the Pitt Rivers Museum
My five-year-old son loves this place. All kids love this place. In fact, it regularly gets chosen as Britain's favorite museum. At the door they give you a flashlight so you can shine it into the dimly lit cases and pretend to be an explorer. Under the cases are drawers you can open to reveal more stuff.
It never ends. We've been in there dozens of times and each time we discover something new. A guard who has been working there for ten years told me the same thing. My kid has never gotten bored at the Pitt Rivers and often asks to go there when we're in Oxford. Unlike in a lot of museums, you hear more kids complaining that they're leaving than that they're going in.
And if that doesn't make it the coolest museum in the world, I don't know what does.
It never ends. We've been in there dozens of times and each time we discover something new. A guard who has been working there for ten years told me the same thing. My kid has never gotten bored at the Pitt Rivers and often asks to go there when we're in Oxford. Unlike in a lot of museums, you hear more kids complaining that they're leaving than that they're going in.
And if that doesn't make it the coolest museum in the world, I don't know what does.
Filed under: Arts and Culture, History, Learning, Europe, United Kingdom
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Patricia Aug 31st 2011 3:10AM
I love this museum. It's like digging through some eccentric uncle's attic!
Heidi Lao Sep 3rd 2011 8:14PM
Barack Obama wants his animals to figure out how to use the directed energy weapons to find out who is wearing the masks to fool him. Every day those PHT animals who come on the telepathic board to talk and harass me are trying to figure out each situation to control people with directed energy weapons.
Barack Obama and Jiang, ZeMing are training their PHT animals in China and America. There are a lot of PHT animals in San Francisco Bay Area already.
Some PHT animals just said that they just needed to control the important place. For example, if I go to the court, they just hit the court that I go to to submission. But around the courts, they send the ones that are not in submission to fool me that every thing is going well. Then if I loss in court, all people who think the fighting with PHT animals are going well will be in shock. And those people probable have done nothing or not enough to bring the PHT fighting to the open and alert and teaching people to fight together.
That was what happened to me. Many years ago I thought that some people were doing something to fight the PHT animals, so my job was to gain my credit and be a witness. Then I found the court was hit to submission in one of the courts I went to. I think people had done something in the past, but it was not enough because the fighting was in darkness. I did not even know the name of the directed energy weapons. I did not try to get the information that I had in my hands to people because I did not think about that people did not even have the information in my hands.
In 2010 I finally found out the name of the directed energy weapons from one of my Chinese megnazine which must be placed there by my landlord family who broke into my apartment again. They placed there probably they found out that they might be killed by the directed energy weapon system in darkness.
This is the reason that everyone has to do the education and teaching and the fighting at every level. It is very important to talk about it in public. The directed energy weapon system has been sucessfully controlling people without paying a price because the public did not know about the control to the depth and the organization of the system to fight.
For example if they don't know who hit them or which departmen hit them. They don't have people to support them. People don't know enough to tell whether they have a disease or is a victim because people have no knowledge in directed energy weapon.
How many people can say the mental disease is not a disease. The mental patients are the victims of the directed energy weapons; they are used to practice the brain function controls. At this moment my sister and her PHT animals are controlling my typing and my brain function, so they can control me in court and hit me to a degree that my brain function is damaged. Then they don't have to go to court to face the judges and the juries at all.
This is the reason that they have controlled my physiology 24/7. I am not able to do anything if they control my brain functions. One way is to hit me to sleep. Or they make me not able to do things that I am trying to do such as typing or having the access to my mails and my emails.
Controlling people's properties is another way to control someone. For example, I did not want to have my oven replaced and my microwave replaced. My sister called police on me and take my mother from me and sent me to a mental hospital. She sent me to the mental hospital right before I was ready to start the repairing and remodeling of my condo. She replaced my oven and my microwave which showed all signs of control on it.
My electronics have been controlled by my landlord family for years. I know very well that I should not get the new electronics if the old ones are working. More functions on the new electronics, more for those PHT animals to control. And we are buying and paying for those functions under their control. If our electronics don't have those hardwares or softwares, then they have to send someone to install those hardwares and softwares. They have to buy and pay for those hardware and softwares. The same is with every thing.
They have been talking about install their PHT weapons including the electronics in people's appliances which are plugged in 24/7. So we can be paying for the electricity that they use to control our life through the electronics in our home, car, companies, and more.
GunnyGirl6 Sep 4th 2011 10:36AM
I love anything with hanging TIKI's
Lovetotravel Sep 4th 2011 2:09PM
Looks great. If you are on the East Coast of the US you might try the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, PA an amazing, similar collection. A favorite of my family.
http://www.mercermuseum.org/