The Pitt Rivers Museum is an ethnographic and archeological museum at the University of Oxford, adjacent to the Natural History Museum building. In 1884, anthropologist researcher Augustus Pitt-Rivers, with the military rank of lieutenant general, presented to Oxford University his collection of weapons and other rare items, which he had collected during his travels through the lands of the British Empire. In the collection of 22,000 exhibits, one could see musical instruments and jewelry from different nations, ritual masks of aborigines, mummies and scalps, carved figurines and much more.
The museum collection grew due to rarities donated to the institution and other English travelers: scientists, missionaries, military men. Now the museum has more than half a million exhibits, the largest of which is the Hyde totem pole from one of the islands of British Columbia in Canada, more than 11 meters high.