A two-day national seminar on Museum Movement in South India, in collaboration with Regional Museum of Natural History, Mysore, commenced on Monday by invocation prayer by Pushpalatha.
Prof Sharit Kumar Chauduri, Director, IGRMS, inaugurated the seminar by lighting the lamp. Prof PK Misra, President of Anthropological Association, Myosre has given inaugural speech. He reflected overview of the growth of the museum movement in South India and raised certain pertinent issues linking with the theme of the seminar.
The Director IGRMS had given introductory remarks about the program and Basavana Gowda, Director, Karnataka Tribal Research Institute, Mysore has shared some of his concern on this topic. Francis Kulakarni, Former Deputy Director, Anthropological Survey of India, and B Yogendra, Scientist-B, RMNH Mysore were also present and spoke on the inaugural session on Tuesday.
V Ashok Vardhan, has welcomed all the guests and delegates. P Shankar Rao, Assistant Keeper, IGRMS, Bhopal has proposed vote of thanks.
The other eminent personalities like Prof A Sundara, University of Mysore, Prof NS Rangaraju, University of Mysore, Dept of History and Archaeology and J Partha Sarathy, former, Director of Tribal Research Institute, Ooty, Tamil Nadu, were also present on the occasion. Besides there are about large number of research scholars from Department of Anthropology, History and Archaeology were also attended in the seminar.
On the first day of the seminar seven papers were presented by Jakka Partha Sarathy, Chandrashekhar Damle, Prof A Sundara. NS Rangaraju, T Nagendra Prasad, Prabhakarand Kedareswari on the selected topic. After the post-lunch session, all the delegates visited to IGRMS, SRC and visualized both open air as well as indoor exhibition.