Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1946.
Readers are reminded that this table is a work in progress and may be amended or added to at any time.
| Month | Day | Event | Source of Information | Notes |
| January | No day | J.S.P. Bradford starts work as Departmental Demonstrator | Annual report 1944-46 | |
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| July | No day | Final member of Walters family dynasty joins staff--Kenneth Henry Walters as technician | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1946-7 | |
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| October | 1 | Bradford starts as University Demonstrator | Annual Report 1946-47 | But see before |
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| December | No day | R.C. Gurden joins staff as Librarian and Secretary | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1946-7 | |
| Unspecified | Beatrice Blackwood appointed Lecturer in Ethnology at PRM | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | Edward Evans-Pritchard is appointed Professor of Social Anthropology, replacing A.R. Radcliffe-Browne | Relational Museum timelines | ||
| Unspecified | Return of Maori meeting house to Arawa people, New Zealand [previously property of Makereti, Mrs Staples Brown] | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1946-7 | ||
| Unspecified | Exchanges with other Museums resumes after the war | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1946-7 | ||
| Unspecified | Work continues on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report | ||
| Unspecified | G.E.S. Turner, Secretary at OUMNH, continues to volunteer working on North American collections, F.H.S. Knowles also continues to volunteer working on stone tool collections | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, personal ornaments | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1946-7 | ||
| Unspecified | Penniman states that the Museum has a policy of having musical instruments that can be played (this policy was later reversed | Annual Report 1946-7 |
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