The Pitt Rivers Museum
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- R. Gurden died
- Dennis Britton replaced J.S.P. Bradford
- New wall cases installed paid for by bequest from Miss G.A. Hansell
- Displays worked on during the year: arrows, treatment of the dead
- Sum of money willed to University to ensure Museum garden serves as memorial to Gurden
- H.F. Walters died after working in museum for more than 30 years, replaced in post by his son K.H. Walters
- New Diploma in Anthropology instituted
- Displays worked on during the year: Hawaiian feather cloaks,
- Card catalogues copied onto microfilm to be stored elsewhere in case of fire
- H.P.G. Unsworth replaced Gurden as Librarian and Museum Secretary
- Penniman retired as Curator of the PRM
- Bernard Evelyn Buller Fagg appointed as third Curator of PRM, post of Curator established as full time permanent post for first time
- First mention of the Swan Fund
- Fagg started in post
- Title of Curator Emeritus conferred on Penniman
- Delegates for OUMNH (which also covered PRM) changed their name to Delegates for the Science Area
- Fagg unveiled new plans for new Museum building, on Banbury Road
- Plans for new Temporary Exhibition area established
- First electronic typewriter obtained by staff
- Donald Ferlys Wilson Baden-Powell joined staff?
- Plans for new museum continued
- D.F.W. Baden-Powell retired, Derek Roe appointed to replace him
- Construction of temporary exhibitions gallery completed
- Netsuke were stolen, man charged, thereafter a small strong room was installed
- Automatic smoke detectors were installed throughout museum buildings
- Roof overhauled and brickwork on gable ends improved
- 18 Parks Road was obtained for storage space
- First Museum van obtained
- New Diplomas in Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology began
- Displays worked on during the year: New firearms display provided in Court
- First Museum photocopier obtained
- Blackwood appointed Honorary Assistant Curator
- Blackwood continued to work on cataloguing collections and on the card catalogues
- Separate annual reports for PRM agreed
- Plans for new museum on Banbury Road site continued
- Temporary exhibitions gallery opened
- Green shed used for lecture theatre and labs now storage moved to Parks Road
- Plans for new museum building prepared by architects Nervi and Messrs Powell and Moya, outline planning permission granted
- New lecture theatre, demonstration room and seminar room created in Green Shed in use
- Blackwood continued to work on cataloguing collections and on the card catalogues
- Fund-raising committee formed to get finances for new building
- Fagg suffered stroke, which incapacitated him for rest of year
- Further specimen lab provided through Wenner-Gren funds
- Equipment for conservation and photographic labs and museum workshop provided
- Peter Gathercole replaced Ken Burridge as University Lecturer in Ethnology
- Further storage provided above workshop
- Colour TV installed in lecture theatre
- Blackwood published 'The Classification of Artefacts in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.'
- Peter Gathercole replaced by Schuyler Jones of ISCA
- Displays worked on during the year: Netsuke
- Small service lift installed
- Fund-raising committee dissolved, Curator asked to work with University Surveyor to devise more economical plan
- Displays worked on during the year: 'Cook display' [Forster objects]
- Occasional paper no. 10 published, 'Metallurgical Reports on British and Irish Bronze Age Implements and Weapons in the Pitt Rivers Museum' by I.M. Allen, D.Britton and H.H. Coghlan
- Extra storage space given in huts behind 1 South Parks Road
- Donald Tayler and Ray Inskeep appointed to Assistant Curator posts
- Ray Inskeep appointed Acting Curator during sabbatical leave by Fagg
- Revised plans for Banbury Road site commissioned, on a staged modular basis
- Upper Gallery used for temporary storage of items previously at 18 Parks Road until new store at Osney Mead was available, the Gallery was closed during this process and archery displays dismantled. The Upper Gallery remained closed for over 20 years until the 1990s
- Textile collections moved to new accommodation in huts behind 1 South Parks Road [conservation laboratory area]
- Conservation laboratory fully operational
- 60 Banbury Road was allocated for Musuem use by University
- First completely separate Annual Report for PRM submitted for publication
- 60 Banbury Road allocated for use by Museum and monies from Francis Baden-Powell made possible establishment of Quaternary Centre
- New Conservation Lab financed by Museum and SEAMS opened ?
- Blackwood died, 29 November 1975
- Fagg retired
- Plans continued to be drawn up for use of site of 60-64 Banbury Road for museum
- Displays worked on during the year: Study collections and Upper Gallery displays reorganized
- PRM glass roof boarded over
- Brian Allan Lefevre Cranstone appointed as Curator of PRM
- Penniman died, 16 January 1977
- Work on new buildings at 60 Banbury Road began
- Stores at Osney are reorganised
- Building work at 60 Banbury Road completed
- First of new monograph series published by museum, 'Eskimos of Northwest Alaska in the Early Nineteenth Century' by J.R. Bockstoce
- The University Surveyor's installed central heating in ground floor of Osney Store to make it suitable for organic material
- After Osney altered, items previously stored in basement of Examination Schools is transferred
- Investigations of how to provide fire escape for Upper and Lower Galleries neared completion
- Roof of 60 Banbury Road retiled
- No. 2 in the Monograph series was published, 'The Kukukuku of the Upper Watut' by Blackwood. Edited from her published articles and unpublished field notes, with an introduction by C.R. Hallpike
- Racking erected in the Museum store at Osney and material transferred from elsewhere
- Roof of Balfour Library re-slated, staircase enclosed and made fire retardant
- Work on Galleries fire-escape still not started
- Venetian blinds installed over large windows at south and north sides of the Museum. For first time there was no natural light in museum
- Front of 60 Banbury Road landscaped
- Unsworth retired, Julia Cousins appointed in his stead
- Unsatisfactory environmental conditions at new exhibition area on Banbury Road prevents installation of displays
- Displays worked on during the year: stone tool collections
