Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 2002.
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 | Museum's computerised collections managements databases for objects and photographic collections are accessible by the public online for first time | Annual Report 2001-2 | |
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| March | No day | Completion of final year of DCF first project, with all targets met and all accession book entries transferred onto computerised database | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report | |
| April | 20 | New Body Arts displays open in Lower Gallery | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 2001-2 | |
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| August | No day | Completion of move of Conservation Lab from St Cross to Banbury Road, and new textile store fully operational | Annual Report 2002-3 | |
| September | 8 | Temporary exhibition The Art of Recycling closes | Annual Report 2002-3 | |
| October | No day | New research project funded by ESRC begins: Relational Museum project | Annual Report 2002-3 | |
| October | No day | 2nd Designated Challenge Fund project begins to catalogue objects in the Court | Annual Report 2001-2 | |
| October | 5 | Temporary exhibition Objects Talk opens | Annual Report 2002-3 | |
| November | No day | 2nd Designated Challenge Fund project begins to catalogue objects in the Court | Annual Report 2002-3 | |
| December | No day | HLF project to improve access is completed | Annual Report 2002-3 | |
| Unspecified | East end of the Upper Gallery reopens following award from DCMS Wolfson Museum and Galleries Improvement Fund | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 2002-3 | ||
| Unspecified | Funding from Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahyan (head of state of Abu Dhabi) to produce a spine catalogue of Sir Wilfred Thesiger's photograph collection | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 2002-3 | ||
| Unspecified | DCF second project 'Court Project' begins to locate and document all objects stored and displayed in Museum's Court | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 2002-3 |
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