THE tastes of Tibet, the sounds of Uganda and the martial arts of Brazil will take over a corner of Oxford for a day.

Tomorrow sees the return of PittFest – the one-day festival of international folk art and culture at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum.

Ugandan music, Brazilian martial arts and Peruvian cuisine will take over the lawn in front of the University Museum, Parks Road, from 11am to 6pm.

The event is free, including workshops on how to play the spoons, carve stone and whittle wood.

Alongside there will also be international street food from Tibetan momos to Brazilian cheese balls.

Festival organiser Jozie Kettle said the event, now in its third year, aimed to celebrate the “global creativity and ingenuity” represented in the museum’s collections.

She said: “You can visit our face painters and have a museum makeover, weave a cordage accessory with Oxfordshire Basket Makers and the Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum, or explore First World War trench art and make a ‘trench bug’ with the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.

“You can join a capoeira or yoga workshop, or settle down for some atmospheric stories with Acorn Education.

“Ever fancied learning to play the spoons? Well, you can and also catch performances from children’s folk singer, David Gibb and Oxford Ukuleles.

“There will be drop-in workshops, demonstrations and performances throughout the day with all ages catered for.”

There will also be a licensed bar on the lawn serving soft drinks for children and Pimms for the parents.

The Pitt Rivers Museum houses more than a million anthropological artefacts from folk cultures around the world, from shrunken heads to tin can toys.

The museum was founded when explorer Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers donated his private collection to the University of Oxford in 1883.

In the years since, the collections have grown from about 20,000 in the general’s original gift to well over one million.

Ms Kettle added: “Pitt Fest is a great opportunity for people to explore the collections of the Pitt Rivers in a new way and beyond the confines of four walls.

“Every activity – from lollipop harmonica making to yoga workshops – has been developed to shed new light on certain areas of the museum’s collections, making what is behind glass cases on a day-to-day basis more accessible.

“The event is about offering the public new activities to try and giving people the opportunity to get hands-on with crafts, music and performance traditions from around the globe.”

Ms Kettle has been working on a five-year, Heritage Lottery-funded project to improve accessibility of the collections by developing new pubic engagement activities and improve object interpretation.

Find out more about Pitt Fest at prm.ox.ac.uk