The Pitt Rivers Museum is the University of Oxford's primary anthropological and archaeological museum, accessible via the adjacent Oxford University Museum of Natural History. The museum was originally founded in 1884 by private donor Augustus Pitt Rivers and showcases a collection of more than 500,000 artifacts from around the world today, which are arranged typologically rather than geographically or chronologically. This unique exhibit approach is intended to showcase the evolution of human culture and emphasize historical and regional variations of common items such as tools, clothing, and machinery. Notable artifacts include the museum's Haida totem pole, which formerly stood outside the indigenous Star House on British Columbia's Graham Island.
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