Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1990.
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 day | Request received from Australian Aboriginal representatives to repatriate human remains | Annual Report 89-90 | |
| April | ||||
| May | 9 | Temporary exhibition, The Goddess of Batik opens | Annual Report 89-90 | |
| June | 15 | Australian human remains returned | Annual Report 89-90 | |
| [Summer] | Ken Walters, head technician and last in line of 3 generations of technicians from family to serve at the museum retires | Annual Report 89-90 | ||
| July | ||||
| August | ||||
| September | ||||
| October | No day | First joint honours students in Archaeology and Anthropology start | Annual Report 89-90 | |
| October | No day | First Beatrice Blackwood Annual Lecture given | Annual Report 90-91 | |
| November | ||||
| December | ||||
| Unspecified | Museum continues to experience budgetary problems | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Benin material, New Accessions netsuke | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 89-90; Annual Report 90-91 | ||
| Unspecified | Second opening cut into Museum's temporary exhibition area to allow egress | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 90-91 | ||
| Unspecified | Museum shop is reorganised | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 90-91 |
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