Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (National ... - IGRMS
Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (National ... - IGRMS Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (National ... - IGRMS
Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya 291 and constructivist approach to gender studies. It challenges the stereotypical image of woman as confined to home and hearth by emphasizing the role of women in various subsistence activities. It celebrates the triumph of creativity of the subaltern woman amidst the dreary drudgery of daily life. The display of kitchen with utensils of different communities implies multiple cultural heritage as well as hybridity. Umang: Special programme for vulnerable groups is organized annually in order to enable differently abled persons and children to visit indoor museum galleries. Since 2006, the World Disabled Day (December 3) is celebrated in collaboration with the Department of Social Justice Government of Madhya Pradesh. On that day, an awareness rally is organised in the City of Bhopal for the cause of differently abled people. Special arrangements are made for the differently abled children to visit IGRMS exhibition galleries on that day and present their special items cultural programme. Some children who brought laurels for India in the Special Olympic in China were felicitated, in 2007. Provisions for ramps and wheel chair have been re-created. Labeling on Braille has been done for the benefit of blind visitors, to understand the cultural dimensions of displays in the galleries. Parvarish: an innovative project was started for slum children with the initiative of an NGO ‘Oasis’ whose objective was to introduce museum as a school of learning in a non-formal manner. The students were taught in a non-formal manner in the IGRMS open air exhibition for two days a week. Other museums also participated in it including Regional Museum of Natural History and Regional Science Centre. These activities received commendable response, and acknowledged at various fora that the IGRMS has already broken certain barriers of the conventional museum functioning, and that it has laid a new track for a new museum movement. Conclusion To conclude, the typical features of IGRMS are highlighted as follows. While museums generally are set up to house an already available collection, for IGRMS the concept came first and collection followed. The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya has lived a vigorous life of more than three decades, transcended some barriers of museum in a conventional sense, and laid new tracks by working in collaboration with folk and tribal communities all over the country for preservation of their bio-cultural identities and their self respect. It has established bridges among different regions and communities in the country, and tried to achieve the goal of national integration by establishing contacts with the youth, women and disadvantaged groups. Within its modest resources, the IGRMS has tried to affirm the fact that the Indian communities, which have lived in harmony for thousands of years, may have the answer for human survival in an age when there is apprehension of bio-cultural extinction. By emphasizing traditional knowledge system IGRMS does not like to romanticize it as a changeless essentialist
292 Multiple Heritage: Role of Specialised Museums in India entity, rather tries to bring out elements of culture as input in sustainable development. Traditional water management, sacred groves are some examples. Understood in these perspectives the statement that IGRMS is a Museum with a difference in India is not a mere cliché. References Anthropological Survey of India 1977 National Museum of Man: A Plan Outline. Calcutta. Basa, K. K. & Jayaprakasan G. 2007 Srinivas and National Museum of Mankind in M.N. Srinivas: The Man and His Work, Rawat Publications, Jaipur. Chakravarty, K. K., n.d., Concept Note on Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal (unpublished, prepared in 1998). Hudson K., 1977 Museums for the 1980s : A Survey of the World Trends, UNESCO, London, Paris and Macmillan Press Ltd.,. Lee, Paula Young 1997 The Museum of Alexandria and the formation of the ‘Museum’ in eighteenth-century, France, The Art Bulletin. R. M. S. 1987 Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya: Project Report (Unpublished, prepared in March 1987). Roy, Sachin 1972 Museum of Man in India: Problems and Prospects. Vatsyayan K. 2005 Souvenir on Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal.
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292 Multiple Heritage: Role of Specialised Museums in India<br />
entity, rather tries to bring out elements of culture as input in sustainable<br />
development. Traditional water management, sacred groves are some examples.<br />
Understood in these perspectives the statement that <strong>IGRMS</strong> is a Museum with a<br />
difference in India is not a mere cliché.<br />
References<br />
Anthropological Survey of India 1977 <strong>National</strong> Museum of Man: A Plan Outline. Calcutta.<br />
Basa, K. K. & Jayaprakasan G. 2007 Srinivas and <strong>National</strong> Museum of Mankind in M.N. Srinivas:<br />
The Man and His Work, Rawat Publications, Jaipur.<br />
Chakravarty, K. K., n.d., Concept Note on <strong>Indira</strong> <strong>Gandhi</strong> <strong>Rashtriya</strong> <strong>Manav</strong> <strong>Sangrahalaya</strong>, Bhopal<br />
(unpublished, prepared in 1998).<br />
Hudson K., 1977 Museums for the 1980s : A Survey of the World Trends, UNESCO, London, Paris and<br />
Macmillan Press Ltd.,.<br />
Lee, Paula Young 1997 The Museum of Alexandria and the formation of the ‘Museum’ in<br />
eighteenth-century, France, The Art Bulletin.<br />
R. M. S. 1987 <strong>Rashtriya</strong> <strong>Manav</strong> <strong>Sangrahalaya</strong>: Project Report (Unpublished, prepared in March 1987).<br />
Roy, Sachin 1972 Museum of Man in India: Problems and Prospects.<br />
Vatsyayan K. 2005 Souvenir on <strong>Indira</strong> <strong>Gandhi</strong> <strong>Rashtriya</strong> <strong>Manav</strong> <strong>Sangrahalaya</strong>, Bhopal.
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