Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1968.
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 | ||||
February | ||||
March | 21 | Nervi (new PRM's architect) visits Oxford | Annual Report 1967-68 | |
April | ||||
May | No day | Fagg suffers stroke which incapacitates him for rest of the academic year. His duties are taken over by the 6 members of the Committee which will become the Board of Visitors of the PRM | Annual Report 1967-68 | |
June | No day | Butt-Colson visits Venezuela to study documents relating to the history of early contacts between Amerindians and the settler population | Annual Report 1968-69 | |
July | 31 | By end of academic year Fagg has been discharged from hospital but is still on official sick leave | Annual Report 1967-68 | |
August | ||||
September | No day | Butt-Colson returns from Venezuela | Annual Report 1968-69 | |
October | ||||
November | ||||
December | ||||
Unspecified | Peter Gathercole replaces Ken Burridge as University Lecturer in Ethnology | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1967-8 | ||
Unspecified | Further storage space is provided above workshop in museum | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1968-69 | ||
Unspecified | Colour TV is installed in lecture theatre | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1968-69 |
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