Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1954.
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 | 6 | John Linton Myres dies, last of the people associated with the setting up of the Diploma course | DNB entry | |
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| June | 8 | Penniman nominates Blackwood for one of the Readerships to be awarded to Senior Demonstrators, he is not successful | OUA, file FA/9/2/90, 8 June 1954 | |
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| September | No day | Museum helps host the BAAS meeting at Oxford, 2 sections were held at the Museum [Anthropology and Engineering] | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1954-5 | |
| September | No day | Blackwood visits Musee de l'Homme in Paris to select items to be exchanged | Frances Larson pers comm | |
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| December | ||||
| Unspecified | Seventh Occasional Paper published, 'Hair Embroidery in Siberia and North America' by G. E. S. Turner | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1954-5 | ||
| Unspecified | Second laboratory built within entrance lobby of museum | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Reports 1953-54, 54-5 | ||
| Unspecified | Work continues on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1953-54, 54-5 | ||
| Unspecified | Cataloguing work on specimens in Examination Schools basement continues | Annual Report 1954-5 | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: None listed | Relational Museum timelines | ||
| Unspecified | Museum House demolished | Blackwood, 1970: 10 |
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