The Pitt Rivers Museum
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- New fire escape fitted for Lower and Upper Galleries
- Unsatisfactory environmental conditions at new exhibition area on Banbury Road meant objects could not be installed
- Central heating provided on upper floor of store at Osney improving environmental conditions
- Displays worked on during the year: arms and armour displays
- Hélène La Rue employed for year as Assistant Curator Musicology [employment continues after that date]
- Decision taken to air condition the Balfour Building at Banbury Road to ameliorate environmental conditions
- Fundraising began for new displays at Balfour Building
- OUMNH closed for renovation, usual entrance therefore closed, new entrance provided through North side of Court of PRM
- Displays worked on during the year: Arms and Armour displays in Upper Gallery, New Textiles display in Court
- Work continued on University museums storage areas at Osney, Museum and 60 Banbury Road
- Air conditioning installed in Balfour Building. Roof of the building proved to need repair
- Formation of Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum discussed
- Series of 12 short programmes about the Museum on local BBC radio
- Air-conditioned store for photographs established at Museum
- Roof of workshop extension re-slated, main Museum roof repaired
- Planning of displays at Balfour Building continued
- Displays worked on during the year: textiles displays completed, arms and armour
- The alternative entrance [the north door] of the PRM was used for half the year while OUMNH remained closed
- Work started on Balfour Building displays, but not completed
- 1984 was centenary of founding of museum, a Centenary Exhibition was opened in January
- Special Journal of Anthropological Society of Oxford [JASO] published to commemorate centenary
- Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum established after public meeting
- Fund-raising for Balfour Building, Assistant Curator for Ethnomusicology continued
- First series of Museum concerts take place
- Displays worked on during the year: continued on the Arms and Armour displays and on improving storage
- New Master of Studies degree in Ethnology and Prehistory established
- Work continued on the Balfour Building displays
- Visitor survey carried out
- Fund-raising continued
- Balfour Building finally opened
- Schuyler Jones appointed as fifth Curator of PRM
- Howard Morphy appointed as Curator / Lecturer
- Museum shop established
- Displays worked on during the year: displays in Upper Gallery and Court
- First computers bought for Museum
- Education services expanded by La Rue, first Museum Trails written
- OxMus [Oxford Museums Club] established for young Museum visitors
- Displays worked on during the year: Court continued, including a new Treatment of the Dead display, Magic and Wtchcraft
- Displays worked on during the year: Court continued, including looms, boat models
- 'Australia in Oxford' exhibition and book produced to celebrate the bi-centenary of British sovereignity over Australia
- First Oxford Art Week event held in Museum [Balfour Building]
- Bryan Cranstone died, 4 September 1989 [he was Curator / Director from 1976 until 1985]
- The Museum suffered financial problems. For the first time there was a budget deficit at end of year ?
- Displays worked on during the year: Court, Lower Gallery [netsuke] Work commenced on a new archery display, Hunter Gatherer displays in the Balfour Building
- School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography established, incorporating the Museum, Institute of Biological Anthropology and Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
- After consultation with Maori and North American groups the Museum removed some human remains from these countries from display ?
- The title of the principal officer of the Museum was changed from Curator to Director, and Assistant Curators were retitled Curators
- Return of certain Aboriginal human remains to the Australian High Commission following request ?
- Displays worked on during the year: boat models, netsuke, bows and arrows
- The last of the Walters clan [Ken Walters] retired. As a family, the Walters had given 120 years service to the Museum
- First of Pitt Stops events for families held
- Museum continued to have budgetary problems
- Museum granted Full Registration status by the Museums and Galleries Commission
- Displays worked on during the year: Benin material, New Accessions
- Second opening cut into Museum's temporary exhibition area
- Museum shop reorganised
- Another visitor survey taken
- First Beatrice Blackwood Annual lecture held organised by the Friends
- First undergraduate students of Archaeology and Anthropology began studies
- Queen Margrethe II of Denmark visited museum
- Displays worked on during the year: Upper Gallery
- The Museum continued to have financial problems
- Displays worked on during the year: Upper Gallery.
- A garden of plants associated with music instruments, Baines Music Garden, was established at 60 Banbury Road
- 64 Banbury Road was refurbished to be used as a 'Research Centre'
- Michael Palin held benefit performances fundraising for the Museum at the Oxford Playhouse
- Electrical rewiring in the museum commenced
- 'Discovery Sunday' for families held in both the OUMNH and Museum, it is very popular
- Balfour Library users given access to Oxford Library Information System ?
- Museum Souvenir Guide published
- Displays worked on during the year: Upper Gallery
- Upper Gallery reopened in May 1995
- 64 Banbury Road opened as a Pitt Rivers Museum Research Centre
- Plans underway to relocate the Museum's Conservation Department
- Visitor survey carried out
- Museum collection management documentation moved onto new computer system and procedures overhauled
- Rewiring of museum completed
- Post of Curator / Lecturer in Music established [shared with the Bate collection]. First incumbent Dr La Rue
- Photographic and manuscript collections moved to Museum's research centre at 64 Banbury Road
- Schuyler Jones retires as Director after twenty seven years in the Museum
- Museum awarded 'Designated Status' for all its collections under the Museums and Galleries Commission's scheme recognizing collections of national importance and significance. ?
- Alternative site for Museum's Conservation Laboratory and textile store still not found
- New Museum collecting box, designed by Tim Hunkin, installed
- Museum website first created
- Michael O'Hanlon appointed Director
- Schedule of improvements to bring the Museum in line with the Disability Discrimination Act was drawn up
- Museum set up own seminar series, 'Work in progress: Research Seminars in Museum Ethnography'
- Museum re-roofing work commenced, most of museum closed to public
- Conservation Lab and Textile store moved to old 'Rifle Range' on St Cross Road
- Museum re-roofing work completed, museum reopened 25 March 2000
- Designated [Museums] Challenge Fund [DCF] first project commenced, computerising the Museum's accession books and its displays of the 'body arts' collections
- University General Board Review held for Museum ?
- Museum open to public for first time on Sundays
