Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1957.
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 | No days | Butt travels to British Guiana to carry out fieldwork | Annual Report 1956-57 | |
| April | No days | Butt travels to British Guiana to carry out fieldwork | Annual Report 1955-56 | |
| April | No days | Bradford spends 4 weeks in Italy on archaeological fieldwork | Annual Report 1956-57 | |
| May | ||||
| June | ||||
| July | ||||
| August | ||||
| September | No day | Butt returns from British Guiana | Annual Report 1955-56 | |
| October | No day | Butt returns from British Guiana | Annual Report 1956-57 | |
| November | ||||
| December | ||||
| Unspecified |
The title of the university department with which the museum is associated is changed from Department of Ethnology to Department of Ethnology and Prehistory |
Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1957-8 | ||
| Unspecified | Work continues on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman, Gurden and Wootton | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1956-7, 57-8 | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: musical instrument displays, Bronze and Iron Age displays | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1956-7 | ||
| Unspecified | Work is carried out on paintings and other 2D art storage | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1957-8 | ||
| Unspecified | Beatrice Blackwood starts work on compiling information which will later be published as 'The Classification of Artefacts in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.' | Relational Museum timelines | ||
| Unspecified | Eighth Occasional Paper published Coghlan's Notes on Prehistoric and Early Iron in the Old World | Annual Report 1956-7 | ||
| Unspecified | Technicians provide cupboards on castors for storage of museum specimens, storage of objects is revised | Annual Report 1956-7 | ||
| Unspecified | A small garden is provided at the back of the Museum between the Museum and the Inorganic Chemistry Department | Annual Report 1956-7 |
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