Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya

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Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya
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Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya
Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya
Former name
National Museum of Mankind
Established21 March 1977;47 years ago (21 March 1977)
LocationShymala Hills, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh 462013
Coordinates 23°13′56″N77°22′39″E / 23.232279°N 77.37761°E / 23.232279; 77.37761
Type Anthropological museum
DirectorDr Bhuvan Vikram
Website www.igrms.gov.in
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Rabari house

Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya also referred to as the National Museum of Humankind, or Museum of Man and Culture is a museum located in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The museum spreads over an area of about 200 acres on the Shymala Hills in the city. This museum depicts the story of mankind in time and space. It is the largest ethnographic museum in India. [1]

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Located on Bhopal's upper lake, 'Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya' can be accessed either from Lake View Road or from another road near Demonstration School. IGRMS has a few permanent exhibitions, broadly categorised as open exhibitions, indoor galleries (Veethi-Sankul and Bhopal Gallery), and periodical/temporary exhibitions. It also has other presentations categorised under online exhibitions, travelling exhibitions, special exhibitions, and ongoing exhibitions.

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Manipur Cultural Dance Statue inside the museum
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The museum has built the following open-air exhibitions: Tribal Habitat, Coastal Village, Desert Village, Himalayan Village, Rock Art Heritage, Mythological Trail, River Valley Culture, Aiyyanar Shrine Complex, and Traditional Technology Park.

The museum also has a regional centre for the South India region, located at Mysore in Karnataka. [2] [3] [4]

History

In 1970, as part of an Indian Science Congress session held in Calcutta, "Sachin Roy, President of Anthropology and Archaeology section, in his presidential address, emphasised the need for a ‘Museum of Man’ in the country". [1] It was then the Madhya Pradesh State Government offered 200 acres of land and consequently the museum was formally established in the state and then inaugurated on 21 April 1979 by union minister Dr Pratap Chandra Chunder. [1] Initially, the museum was located at the Bahawalpur House, New Delhi. [1]

Alongside exhibiting material culture and intangible heritage presentations at the museum, the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya has also preserved and presented diverse forms of natural features, landscapes, and ecosystems that hold significant value in terms of their cultural, scientific, aesthetic, or ecological importance. According to Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty, formerly director (1994–2000) of the IGRMS and member secretary (2004–2009) of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, "the museum at Bhopal does not consider the past alone as its preserve, the Indian tribal or prehistoric man as its only concern, or the indigenous traditional knowledge systems as the only areas of its investigation because it has concerned itself seriously with issues of scientific research and investigation, with a bearing on community well being, with different areas of ethno-sciences, with interface between contemporary and traditional architecture, with urban and country planning, in and ex situ preservation of germ-plasm in minor forest timber produce, viable patterns of water and physical resource sharing and their impact on cultural patterns in the Himalayan system, and, with measures to deal with ecological degradation". [5]

Galleries

The indoor museum consists of twelve galleries. [1]

  1. Human Bio-Cultural Evolution
  2. Human Odyssey
  3. Lingo Yatra (Festival of the Koitor)
  4. Mandwa Gohri (Bhil-Rathwa Ritual exhibits)
  5. Ethnic Art
  6. Belief-system, Cosmology, and Rituals Arts
  7. Ethno-musical Gallery
  8. Masks
  9. Ethnic Cuisine and Folk Art Traditions
  10. Visual Storage and Research Gallery
  11. Culture of the North-East India
  12. Island treasures of India

Exhibited artworks

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Roy Chowdhury, Bipasa (2018). "Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya: A New Paradigm to Preserve our Cultural Heritage" (PDF). International Journal of Research in Engineering, IT and Social Sciences. 8 (7): 243–246. ISSN   2250-0588.
  2. ↑ "Seminar on tribal and analogous culture". The Hindu . 2 August 2010. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  3. ↑ "The Southern Regional Centre of IGRMS, at Maisuru (Mysore)".
  4. ↑ "Nomads Of India: Lifestyle Expo Opens At IGRMS". Star of Mysore. 11 December 2018.
  5. ↑ Chakravarty, Kalyan Kumar (2005). "Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya: The Noah's Ark". Humankind. 1: 25–30 – via Academia.edu.

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