It's easy to confuse the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Natural History Museum - two veritable institutions under one roof. In this imagined meeting between the museums' founders, Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers and Sir Henry Acland - two Victorian gents with competing sideburns and distinguished careers in their respective fields of anthropology and science - we learn a little bit more about how and why they came to establish these great repositories, how the collections complement one another, and join the debate over who has the best exhibit - is it a porcupine fish helmet or a terrifying dinosaur?
