Just back from another drawing session in the PRM revelling in simply being there. Later that evening evening I listed ‘Five reasons to love the Pitt Rivers’.
WATCH and enjoy how everyone else reacts and gets excited, especially the children as they run from glass case to case. During term time I am in competition! . . Once three different school groups were scurrying round the display cases. Everyone had a small drawing board, paper and pencil. We are all getting treasure down on paper.
BREADTH; we can travel through a vast variety lands, cultures and histories, for as long as we like. The place is an anthropological romp around the globe. Unsurpassed and a collection brimming with exciting bits and bobs.
DEPTH: Read just one of the captions that attend each artefact you discover so much. Visit Nagaland a mountainous state in northeast India, and marvel on the get-ups of tribes when they celebrate!
SIMPLICITY: there are no ‘Experiences’, huge visual aids, buttons, and programs. It is easy to just look and marvel. On one occasion the trumpets and drums that caught my eye. There are over nine thousand three hundred and fourteen musical instruments in the Collection.
CURIOSITY fuels affection; this is a place to keep on visiting, go six or sixty times and keep learning and marvel. Be sure to explore in the Arsenal on the upper floor: Remarkable steel from Japan and bamboo put to good use in Indonesia. The blowpipe must be an effective weapon the right hands I am sure.
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