Pitt Rivers Museum – The Art of Benin
For our final day in Oxford we planned to visit the Pitt Rivers and Ashmolean museums. The Pitt Rivers Museum holds some items of Benin artworks. Since I have been studying these recently as part of my Open University course it seemed appropriate to pop over for a viewing of them. Setting off from Oxford Peartree Travelodge, it was another cold morning. The Pitt Rivers Museum adjoins the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and you have to follow what seems like a mini…