Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1928.
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 | ||||
| April | No day | Blackwood lectures on Human Hybridization in Trinity Term | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| May | ||||
| June | 21 | Balfour leaves London on journey to Kenya and Uganda | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 8 | Balfour arrives Port Sudan | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 11 | Balfour arrives at Aden, Yemen | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 17 | Balfour arrives Mombasa | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 19 | Balfour travels to Nairobi | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 24 | Balfour travels to Ngong Hills | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July |
27 |
Balfour arrives at Kisumu | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 29 | Balfour travels to Entebbe | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 2 | Balfour travels to Kampala | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 5 | Balfour travels to Jinja | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 12 | Balfour travels to Nakuru, visits Leakey excavations | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 16 | Balfour returns to Nairobi, then travels to Mount Kenya, Meru and Isiola | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 21 | Balfour returns to Nairobi | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 23 | Balfour leaves Nairobi for Mombasa | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 27 | Balfour arrives Mombasa | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | No day | Penniman awarded distinction in Diploma for Anthropology | Peter Rivière | |
| September | 1 | Balfour visits Mombasa for Europe | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| October | No day | Blackwood lectures on The Value of Mental Testing in Ethnological Work in Michaelmas Term | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| November | 16 | A severe gale rips part of the museum roof off and damages some cases in the Upper Gallery. Repairs are not effected for a fortnight | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1928 | |
| December | ||||
| Unspecified | Blackwood promoted to be University Demonstrator in Physical Anthropology | Frances Larson pers comm. | ||
| Unspecified | Ernest Seymour Thomas continues to work on cataloguing and labeling objects | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1928 | ||
| Unspecified | New exhibition cases added to Upper and Lower Galleries | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1928 | ||
| Unspecified | Problems still experienced with heating system | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1928 | ||
| Unspecified | Balfour complains at lack of space in Museum in annual report | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1928 | ||
| Unspecified | Balfour continues to work on the Westlake collection | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1928 | ||
| Unspecified | Ernest Seymour Thomas starts cataloguing Naga objects | Relational Museum timelines | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Barkcloth | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1928 | ||
| Unspecified [poss November] | Ceiling of research room at Museum House collapses | Annual Report 1928 | ||
| Unspecified | Marett becomes Rector of Exeter College, Oxford | DNB entry |
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