Performing Tibetan Identities exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum
OXFORD'S Pitt Rivers Museum has been shortlisted for the Art Fund Museum of the Year award.
The much-loved Parks Road institution has been recognised for its exhibitions and partnerships, including recently working with Maasai communities to change the way their stories are told in the museum.
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It joins four other finalists which are HMS Caroline, Belfast; Nottingham Contemporary; St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff; and V&A Dundee.
The winning museum, which will receive £100,000, will be announced at a ceremony at the Science Museum, London, on Wednesday, July 3.
Museum director Dr Laura Van Broekhoven, said: “We are thrilled."
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