Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1987.
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 | New temporary exhibition, Making Light Work, opens at main museum | Annual Report 86-87 | |
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| May | No day | First exhibition in association with Oxford Art Weeks held in museum | Annual Report 86-87 | |
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| July | No day | Exhibition, Making Light Work, ends. New exhibition 'Between Gandhara and the Silk Roads: Rock-carvings from the Karakorum' opens | Annual Report 86-87 | |
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| October | No day | New M.St and M.Phil degrees are offered for first time | Annual Report 85-86; Annual Report 86-87 | |
| October | No day | Ivor Morris, museum technician, dies in post | Annual Report 87-88 | |
| October | No day | Meeting of the Museum Ethnographers Group held in the Museum | Annual Report 87-88 | |
| October | 3 | Opening of Tibet a Great Mountain Land temporary exhibition of Charles Bell's photographs | Annual Report 87-88 | |
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| December | ||||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Court wall cases work continued, including looms, boat models | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 86-87 | ||
| Unspecified | 'Australia in Oxford' exhibition is held and an associated book published to celebrate the bi-centenary of British sovereignity over Australia | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report | ||
| Unspecified | First Oxford Art Week event held in Museum [Balfour Building] | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report |
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