Bhopal

Programmes to mark 43rd foundation day of museum

Staff Reporter

The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya under the celebrations of its 46th Foundation Day is organising various programmes and activities at its premises from March 21 to 23, 2022.

Rakesh Bhatt, Assistant Curator of the museum informed that the inauguration ceremony of the program will be held on March 21, 2022.at 6:00 pm by the Principal Secretary Culture and Tourism, Sheo Shekhar Shukla, in the veethi sankul premises. The exhibition of the 'Manav Sangrahalaya Journey from the Intangible to the Tangible' will be inaugurated, After that, the foundation day will be started by lighting the traditional 1001 lighted lamp 'Al-Vilakku' of Kerala, at Veethi Sankul premises of the Manav Sangrahalaya on March 21.

After this, in the festival of regional cultures, the residents of the states of Kerala, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, who are residing in Bhopal, will be given cultural presentations of their respective states by the members of those communities. On this occasion, the traditional dishes of Bhil tribe of Madhya Pradesh will be available for the visitors at a reasonable price on 21st March in the Vithi Sankul premises of the museum.

On March 23, at 4 pm, the exhibition 'aajadi ke matwale' will be inaugurated in the Rock Art Bhawan of the museum.

After this, from 4:15 pm, the annual IGRMS lecture will be organized, in which Ashok Kumar Tiwari, former curator of Indira Gandhi  rashtriya manav sangrahalaya bhopal, He will deliver a lecture on the topic “Kahaani Manav Sangrahalaya, sangrahalaya nirman ki yatra – A Small Story. In this function, a book exhibition 'Sahitya Mein Swaraj' based on the glorious history of independence will be organized in the library by the library section of the museum.