I went to a lot of museums. Help?

[sarren]

Does anyone have access to the JSTOR archive and could get me this article about the Ashmolean Museum? It's just out of personal interest.

About twelve years about I quit my job and backpacked around the UK for a while. One of my favourite places was a museum which I remember as being about a block away from the British Museum, for some reason, but now I'm thinking it was Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

It was a large old building with a second floor that was like, balconies that ran all around the sides, so you could look over the edge at the ground floor and it was CHOCKA with what seemed to be some mad old gentleman’s collection of everything he could carry away from the colonies. There were glass cases full of shrunken heads, beads, wall displays full of spears, headdresses etc. And all this stuff was just crammed together. It was AWESOME.

If it was the Ashmolean, it doesn't look like that now. I can't help thinking that's a shame.

Comments

[chaosmanor.livejournal.com]

Emailing you the pdf of the article.

[emma-in-oz.livejournal.com]

I can't think of a museum near the BM. The closest, I think, is the Nat Gallery in Trafalger Square.

[montanaharper]

I think I know which museum you're talking about, but I have to get back to my guidebooks (Monday evening) before I can find the name of it. Your description rings a bell, though, of something I was considering visiting. The one I'm thinking of was actually in the home of the man who collected it, iirc.

[xahra99.livejournal.com]

just passing thru -linked off someone else's journal, but I had to drop a line if it's not too late. The museum you want is the Pitt-Rivers in Oxford http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/
Hope that helps.