Lovely! So green! so wet! Did you see the Aslan grotesque outside one of the buildings? There's also that simply enormous bookstore. We had a wonderful day in Oxford last year and though the Natural History Museum was being renovated (and now newly open and restored to its beautiful former self) we did peruse the Pitt Rivers which was just extraordinary. What was the occasion for your visit?
It was very green~ And very wet! I caught a cold from walking around Christ Church college without an umbrella. I actually was sent to Oxford on a school fellowship so that I could study C.S Lewis' life and see where he drew his inspirations from. I stayed there for about a week and walked all over Oxford and down to Headington Quarry to see his church and home. The wildlife preservation, too, was beautiful, if not quagmire-y. There was this awesome view from the top of it by a cow pasture, which looked out over the countryside through the trees. I had such a great time and have SO many more pics to upload. Where are the Pitt Rivers? I might have seen them but not known what they were. Most of my time was spent bulmbling around witha map and turning on a dime because I missed my street.
What a lovely opportunity! The Pitt Rivers is an ethnographic and archaeological museum within the Museum of Natural History. To quote their webpage, while most museums of that type "are arranged according to geographical or cultural areas. Here they are arranged according to type: musical instruments, weapons, masks, textiles, jewellery, and tools are all displayed in groups to show how the same problems have been solved at different times by different peoples." So, in a single case you'll have a whole display of depictions of tiny animal sculpture -- from ancient Egyptian cat statutes to a tacky Made in China painted rooster from a souvenir shop in Ecuador. A whole display of eating utensils or toys, over hundreds or thousands of years from all over the world. It's the most eccentric collection of stuff I've ever seen and so obviously an artifact of British sun never sets on it Empire
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Ooooh! Haha, now I feel silly for thinking they were actual rivers. Heh. I dunno why, but I never stopped by the natural history museum! And you make it sound so cool, too! Now I have to go back. I love sciencey things. It's the museum on Parks Road, right? Not Broad Street? I think I walked by it on my first day when I was really, really lost.
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Where are the Pitt Rivers? I might have seen them but not known what they were. Most of my time was spent bulmbling around witha map and turning on a dime because I missed my street.
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I dunno why, but I never stopped by the natural history museum! And you make it sound so cool, too! Now I have to go back. I love sciencey things. It's the museum on Parks Road, right? Not Broad Street? I think I walked by it on my first day when I was really, really lost.
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