Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sanghralaya organised a lecture under Museum Popular lecture series titled “Man, Museum and Culture” by Vijay Prakash Sharma Director of National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad.
Sharma described the gradual development of the human the changes in their environment, physical and Culture in detail. He said first humans then culture and later museums evolved. He related tourism with museums. He said if the objects of the tribals are exhibited to the people or even sell them replicas through museum shops it will result into great interest towards museums and the museum which are centre of knowledge will be connected to more and more people spreading the knowledge.
The Museum Popular lecture was chaired by SN Chaudhary, Chairman, Rajiv Gandhi Gandhi Chair, Barkatullah University. In his address Chaudhary shared his experience from his days of field research, he gave example of Red Indian region of Canada, where every village instituted its museum and would take all their visitors there.
The tourists of the villages used to get all information about their history from those museums. In the beginning, Arun Kumar Shrivastava, Director, IGRMS delivered the inaugural address. The guests were welcomed by HBS Parihar, Sudipa Roy and Rakesh Bhatt (Assistant Keeper).
A team of students of Jagran lake City University, Bhopal led by HOD, School of Humanities and Arts, Ruchi Sharma and Rolli Agrawal (Assistant Professor) attended the lecture. The questions by under-graduate students made speaker, Sharma very happy and he answered all the queries by the young students.
The programme concluded with vote of thanks delivered by Assistant Curator, Arun Kiro. Surya Kumar Pandey, Assistant Keeper, coordinated the programme.