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All of the images below are from the Pitt Rivers
Gallery and Museum.
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Basically, in the middle of another three weeks of workshops and inductions, our lecturers decided that we should all go down to Oxford for the day and have a lovely walk around the Ashmolean Museum and the Pitt Rivers Gallery.
Unfortunately, because they decided that it`s be great to do this during more inductions; I never actually had any time to talk about it and share it with you guys. But, because it`s been about 2 weeks, I can`t bloody remember what I exactly saw when I was there and I`m annoyed at my camera at the moment because all of the images are still on my camera... But the wires for my camera at my boyfriends University flat.
This isn`t going to be very fun to do without any images, and my forgetfulness.
During the Ashmolean museum, our lecturers dragged us up to one of the top floors so we could have a look around the modern art exhibition which was apparently a "special" exhibition that they had on. All I`m going to say is that I wasn`t impressed at all, we couldn`t take any photos, the room was very small and cramped and the work that they had on display was just a random load of work all mish mashed together. None of it made any sense and it wasn`t impressive at all. That`s all for Modern Art at the Ashmolean.
The rest of the museum was absolutely brilliant; they`ve got giant collections of historical art from around the world with detailed explanations into their cultures and into some of the items that have on display there.
The only problem with the Ashmolean is because it was sooo big and we only had an hour or so to walk around the building; we couldn`t get around everything in time, so there was a lot of work on the upper floors that many of us didn`t get too see. I think most people stayed around the same kind of three floors sandwiched in the middle. I ended up rushing one of my god friends Lucie around the building so we could go to the lower floors, look at the preserving history area, look at the Japanese and Chinese areas... It was a struggle to rush around that building.
I think that if you seriously want to have a good look around there then you need to spend a whole day in there just walking around and taking it all in. There`s too much to see in there in too little time, and it`s also very, very easy to get lost and confused as you walk around. The maps don`t help that much, they could really do with something a bit more detailed with a floor plan of every floor in the building, the amount of times I got lost was ridiculous.
The Modern art area, let me down; a lot. But the rest of the gallery is hard to explain, it`s extremely big and had a large range of historical art work and art work from around the globe. Just putting it into words is extremely hard, and it`s been two weeks sooo... Just look at some of the collections online, there`s some really good stuff on there.
The Pitt Rivers museum and Gallery was much better in my eyes.
It`s quite old and historical, the outside of the building seems quite dark and everything inside is original. At the front of the building is the more museum-y part of the building; it`s got large fossils and
skeletons hanging from the ceiling and placed in cases. Along with the large range of fossils, skeletons, gems, crystals, insects and taxidermy... You can go to the very back of the building and they have one of the largest collections of found objects from around the world. It goes something like that anyways, they have a collection of over 20,000 objects that are all on display all of the time. 
This area has three floors, the area itself is very darkly lit and is seriously just packed full of glass cases with these weird historical items in them. All of the pictures on this blog are from the museum, you can find a lot more of the pictures online and they`ll be a much better quality than the pictures I`d taken.
