Museums to add zing to keep them relevant
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Museum curators and scholars have said museums in the capital Delhi need to move with the times to keep interests of visitors alive. Times of India said as the museums in Delhi were being remembered on International Museum Day this week, experts have stressed the importance of public-friendly facilities and public awareness to encourage the younger generation to come to the city’s museums and revisit their past. There are over two dozen museums in the Capital including the famous National Museum, National Gallery of Modern Art, Gandhi Museum, National Philatelic Museum, Rail Museum, etc. Monuments like Red Fort, Salimgarh and Purana Qila also house museums which take visitors back to the time of the Mughal and British eras. The paper quoted Dr C V Bose, Director of National Museum, as saying that museums had to reinvent themselves according to the requirements of the new generation.”Interactive displays and digitalisation are necessary. Most galleries, including the ones at the National Museum, were designed about two decades ago and may not be suitable to requirements today. The style of viewing and concepts has changed over time and we need to move it. It is also important to take museums out of the four walls of the building.”The report said The National Museum has a number of plans in store for them in coming years like newly renovated galleries, a travelling exhibition giving a glimpse of the entire country from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. Others proposals include a display on Indian railway heritage, a complete virtual online museum tour and an outreach programme to bring the museum closer to the younger generation. Added Dr Bose: “We have launched a public museum movement on a pilot basis and started with the objective of modernizing the National Museum to make it at par with museums across the world.”
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