Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1930.
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 | 5 | Buxton considers applying for University Registrar post and Blackwood considers applying for Reader in Physical Anthropology | PRM ms collections Blackwood papers box 2, letter 12, 5 January 1930 | |
| February | 11 | Blackwood swops her research site for Kurtachi area in northern Bougainville | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
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| July | 2 | Balfour leaves London to visit Nigeria | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1930 / Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 16 | Balfour arrives Lagos | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 18 | Balfour travell to Oshogbo, then Akure | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 24 | Balfour travels to Oshogbo then Ife, Kaduna and Zaria | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 1 | Balfour visits Katsina | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 5 | Balfour moves on to Kano | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 10 | Balfour arrives at Jos | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 10-14 | Balfour in Jos | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 15-17 | Balfour in Makurdi | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 18 | Balfour in Enugu | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 25 | Balfour in Onitsha | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 29 | Balfour stays in Benin | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| September | 2-10 | Balfour in Akure | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| September | 14 | Balfour sets sail from Lagos | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| October | 1 | Balfour arrives in UK | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| October | 1 | Blackwood leaves Kurtachi and travels via Petats to New Zealand and Australia | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| November | 3 | Blackwood arrives at Dunedin, New Zealand | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| November | 18 | Blackwood leaves New Zealand for Hawaii | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| December | 5 | Blackwood arrives Vancouver, Canada | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| Unspecified | Ernest Seymour Thomas completes catalogue of the Naga objects 'under Balfour's instruction' | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1930 | ||
| Unspecified | New cases erected around pillars and other places in Court | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1930 | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: None specifically listed but work was done | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1930 |
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