Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhopal, inaugurated Temporary Exhibition on ‘Birds of India-Painting & Model Exhibition on Avian Species of India on Thursday in collaboration with MP State Biodiversity Board, Bhopal and Bhopal Birds, Bhopal.
Prof RJ Rao, Vice Chancellor, Barkatuallah University, Bhopal, was the Chief Guest of the programme to inaugurate the temporary exhibition.
In-charge of the museum & Scientist-B Manoj Kumar Sharma, Coordinator of the exhibition & Scientist-B Beenish Rafat, Scientist-B Manik Lal Gupta, Mohd Khalique from Bhopal Birds and Artists, and visitors were present in the programme.
The aim of the exhibition is to make awareness towards the birds species. 16 Models and 25 species of birds likes Crimson sunbird, Indian Spot Bill Duck, Himalayan Monal, Purple Sunbird, Common Kingfisher, Black hooded oriole, Golden oriole, Baya, Indian bustard, Lesser florican, Sarus crane, Rose Ringed Parakeet, Malabar pied hornbill, Red crested pochard, Northern Lapwing, Paradise flycatcher, Orange headed thrush, Indian roller, Khalij Pheasant, Red avadavat, House sparrow, Tickell’s flycatcher, Indian pitta etc displayed in the exhibition.
Artist of the Museum Navin Kumar and Modeler Arvind Anupam made the models and Painting made by 23 Artists from Bhopal & other places of country Rajat Banke, Shipra Ramtaker, Prachi Keer, Bhawan Yadav, Ajay Verma, Tanuja Soni, Mahesh Singh Rathore, Nasreen Bano, Kanika Gupta, Ritu Tiwari, Atul Vashisth, Nishi Pathidar, Atul Patel, Aashish, Sonali Malhotra, Geetanjali, Durlabh Gupta, Aarti, Jayesh Soni, Harsh Singh, Shubham Thakur, Bharti Chouhan, Ridima Shukal and Rupal Soni displayed in the exhibition
In-charge of the museum & Scientist-B Manoj Kumar Sharma welcomed the Chief Guest, Artists, Officers & officials of museum and other invitees. During his speech, Chief Guest Prof RJ Rao appreciated the museum to organise the exhibitions/activities & collaborative programmes towards the conservation of environment.
He also said that we can connect people with environment through natural history museum and this type of exhibition. Scientist-B of the museum Beenish Rafat was the coordinator of the temporary exhibition.