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Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1947.

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Go to 1946

Month Day Event Source of Information Notes
January
February
March No day  Bradford carries out excavation at Cassington Annual Report 1946-7
April
May
June
July No day  Bradford visits Italy to arrange future excavations in Apulia Annual Report 1946-7 
August
September No day  Bradford starts work 'improving' Lower Gallery Annual Report 1947-8
October
November
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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