Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1947.
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 |
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| February | ||||
| March | No day | Bradford carries out excavation at Cassington | Annual Report 1946-7 | |
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| July | No day | Bradford visits Italy to arrange future excavations in Apulia | Annual Report 1946-7 | |
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| September | No day | Bradford starts work 'improving' Lower Gallery | Annual Report 1947-8 | |
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| December | ||||
| Unspecified | Plans formulated by University Surveyors' to refurbish old Department of Geology accommodation adjacent to Museum for museum library and additional offices | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1947-8 | ||
| Unspecified | Museum stores are moved from Museum House to the basement of the Examination Schools | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1947-8 | ||
| Unspecified | Museum loses 9 Crick Road to University Department of Botany | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1947-8 | ||
| Unspecified | Penniman is assured that most musical instruments are in playing condition | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1947-8 | ||
| Unspecified | Work continues on card catalogue system by Blackwood | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1947-8 | ||
| Unspecified | Following volunteers worked in Museum: F.H.S. Knowles, G.E.S. Turner | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Reports | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Much work undertaken to 'restore overcrowded cases to the original idea of General Pitt Rivers', cases in Lower Gallery | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Reports 1947-8 | ||
| Unspecified | Second Occasional Paper [Laura Start] is published | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Reports | ||
| Unspecified | Gurden completes cataloguing of Balfour Library including books from Tylor, Marett, Beasley and Wild (and Myres) | Annual Report 1947-8 | ||
| Unspecified | 'Much work has gone on during the year in improving exhibitions and in restoring overcrowded cases to the original idea of General Pitt Rivers, treating the class of object as the genus, and the region as the species' | Annual Report 1947-8 |
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