Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya organised another chapter of its popular series, Curatorial Talk Show on Tuesday where Assistant Keeper of Manav Sangrahalaya, Surya Kumar Pandey spoke on ‘Making of an Exhibition and Beyond: Narrating Curatorial Experience’. The programme was chaired Prof Sarit Kumar Chaudhari (Director, IGRMS).
Pandey in his lecture explained in detail about the conceptual idea, making of the exhibition and its impact of first single object exhibition – Poubi lai. He delivered his lecture with the help of a power-point presentation with technical details. He said, “All the trainees of leadership Training Programme at British Museum were asked to mount individual exhibitions in their respective museums and exhibitions by collectively by several museums as well.
Under this initiative the idea of single object exhibition was conceptualised and IGRMS volunteered to mount first of its kind exhibition, which was presented at National Museum, New Delhi to be appreciated by one and all. For the exhibition several exhibits of international importance were shortlisted and the final one – Poubi lai was chosen on basis of five criterions.
Keeping in mind the objectives of the institution and to provide information to the visitors the title of the exhibition was of eight words ‘Poubi lai – The story of a giant python’. New information was collected and an artists’ workshop was organised at Imphal, Manipur for making this exhibition. This exhibition gained huge popularity amongst children, for them special picture books, activity sheet and introductory film was made. To take the exhibition to the masses help of social and mainstream media was taken along with a pan India drawing competition on Poubi lai was organised with the help of children’s magazine- Baal Bhaskar. The exhibition was praised by all. later, Pandey gave answers to the queries by the audience.