Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1900.
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 | on | Tylor lectures on Anthropology in ancient literature in Hilary Term | Alison Brown pers comm | |
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| April | No day | Tylor lectures on Early stages of civilization - arts of subsistence and protection in Trinity Term | Alison Brown pers comm | |
| May | 4 | Pitt-Rivers dies | ||
| May | 7 | Hebdomadal Council appoints Tylor, Balfour and Henry Pelham to represent University at Pitt-Rivers' Funeral. Obituary published in Times | University Intelligence: Jackson's Oxford Journal, 12 May 1900, p. 6; The Times 7 May 1900 | |
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| July | 7 | Museum visited by Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1900 | |
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| October | No day | Tylor lectures on Development of language, writing and arithmetic in Michaelmas Term | Alison Brown pers comm | |
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| December | ||||
| Unspecified | Thomson appointed Professor at Royal Academy, until 1934 | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | 2 photographs of Pitt-Rivers installed in Pitt Rivers Museum 'on either side of the door' (presumably the entrance door from the OUMNH). | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1900 | ||
| Unspecified | Range of screens installed in Court above wall cases to display shields and body armour | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1900 | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Weaving, stone implements, pottery, archery, blowguns, bronze age implements, Ancient Egyptian arm ornaments, games, shadow figures, shields / armour, spears | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1900 |
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