Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1941.
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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March | No day | R.J.C. Atkinson of Magdalen College starts work on conserving bronzes | Annual Report 1940-41 | |
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Unspecified | Green shed is reorganized to take M.D.W. Jeffreys collection donated by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1941-42 | ||
Unspecified | Museum House partly cleared, and lantern slides, negatives, films and photographs are stored in basement | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report | ||
Unspecified | Meinhard almost completes catalogue of Balfour collection and catalogues new accessions | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1941-42 | ||
Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, pottery, clothing, bone horn ivory implements, Malayan brasses, Maori cloaks | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1941-42 | ||
Unspecified | 20,000 catalogue cards of objects in collection prepared in 1940-41 by Mrs Meinhard, Mr Gibbs, Mrs Maspero and Mrs Clibborn | Annual Report 1940-41 | ||
Unspecified | Cataloguing of Balfour Library continues by Mr and Miss Ford of Radcliffe Library | Annual Report 1940-41 |
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