Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1970.
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 | 1 | Schuyler Jones begins post of Assistant Curator, at the PRM. He had previously been at the Institute of Social Anthropology (Oxford) | Annual Report 1969-70 | |
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| May | 1 | Opening of the second temporary exhibition, it concerned the ethnographic objects collected during Captain Cook's second voyage of discovery 1772-3 | Annual Report 1969-70 | Research completed by Peter Gathercole before he left |
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| October | 1 |
The Fund Raising Committee which was established to try and raise £6.5m. for the endowment and maintenance of new PRM is disbanded. The Curator asked to work with University Surveyor to devise a more economical plan for the new museum |
Annual Report 1970-71 | |
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| Unspecified | Schuyler Jones is appointed to replace Peter Gathercole as Lecturer in Ethnology and Assistant Curator | Annual Report 1970-71 | ||
| Unspecified | Two new Assistant Curators are advertised for | Annual Report 1970-71 |
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