Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1966.
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 | No day | Meeting of Congregation authorizes purchase of land from St Johns College in Banbury Road for new museum. University commissions Pier Luigi Nervi to work on design | Annual Report 1965-66 | |
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| October | No day | New lecture theatre, demonstration room and seminar room created in the Green Shed are in use for Michaelmas term | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1966-67 | |
| November | No day | R.W. Sword leaves museum to take 'a curatorial appointment' elsewhere | Annual Report 1966-67 | |
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| Unspecified | Plans for new museum building on Banbury Road are prepared by architects Nervi and Messrs Powell and Moya, outline planning permission is granted | Relational Museum timelines | ||
| Unspecified | Blackwood continues to work on cataloguing collections and on the card catalogues | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1966-67 |
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