Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1955.
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 | No day | Brice leaves to take up job at University of Manchester | Annual Report 1954-55 | |
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| September | No day | Penniman asks that Blackwood's period of office be extended to aged 70 | Frances Larson pers comm | |
| October | 1 | Audrey Butt joins museum as University Demonstrator and Lecturer in Ethnology | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1954-55 | |
| October | No day | Anthony Wootton returns from National Service to post as Assistant Secretary to Museum | Annual Report 1955-56 | |
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| December | No day | University's Visitatorial Board considers extending Blackwood service | Frances Larson pers comm | |
| Unspecified | Work continues on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1954-55, 1955-56 | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Barkcloth, stringwork, and further work on musical instruments, feather headdresses | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1955-56 | ||
| Unspecified | Eighth Occasional Papers is published, 'Notes on Prehistoric and Early Iron in the Old World' by H.H. Coghlan | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1955-56 |
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