New Pitt Rivers Museum Cook voyage collections website now live
A new
website Cook Voyage Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum designed to provide
researchers and the general public with access to all the information that the
Pitt Rivers Museum holds about the objects in its care that were collected on
the famous Pacific voyages of Captain James Cook (1728–1779) was launched
in June. At its heart is a searchable catalogue that links to the
relevant records in the Museum's regularly updated online database. The website
is one of the outcomes of a two-year
project to conserve and investigate the Cook-Voyage collections at the Pitt
Rivers, funded by the Clothworkers' Foundation and led by Deputy Head of
Conservation Jeremy Uden.
In February 2014, the
Pitt Rivers was pleased to announce that it had been awarded
£64,845 from the DCMS/Wolfson Foundation's Museums and Galleries Improvement
Fund. The award will allow the museum to purchase a new display case for
the Cook-voyage collections, and the case will be big enough to enable objects
like the fau (Tahitian Priest's helmet) and the Tahitian Mourner's costume to
be displayed to their full effect for the first time. A generous donation
from the Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum will help with installation
costs. The new case will give the Museum the opportunity to reinterpret the
Cook voyage collection in light of new information and research findings discovered
during the Conserving Curiosities project. Below are images of some of the objects that will be included in the new display.
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