The words Arna-Jharna literally mean ‘forest spring’. On one hand, it would seem to be an appropriate name for a museum devoted to the study of traditional knowledge systems within a larger ecology. Arna-Jharna also happens to be the local name of the region...
Caroline Lang, Former Head of Education and Public Programmes, Hong Kong Maritime Museum shares her experience of working in an Asian museum and points out the difference she saw in comparison to museums in London. ...
Gaurav Yadav, scientist in-charge at the Regional Museum of Natural History in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, puts forward a new model study, purely speculative, called the Heritage Sustainability Potential that attempts to quantify the value of heritage. Recently, while...
Collections Corner is an online initiative aimed at highlighting collections from museums and galleries across India that visitors should know more about. This month, we feature artifacts from one of the three national museums of India, the Salarjung Museum in...
The Living and Learning Design Centre (LLDC) part of the Shrujan Trust, which has been committed to craft revival and income generation of craftspeople for close to 50 years in order to empower craftswomen living in 120 remote villages of Kutch to earn a dignified and...
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