The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) and other musuems of the State capital, under the banner of Forum of Musuems is organising various programmes and activities to mark the International Musuem Day on Sunday.
All the museums of the city and the artists have been preparing for the programmes for past one week.
The series of various activities will be inaugurated by chief guest of the occasion, Additional Secretary of Ministry of Culture in Government of India KK Mittal. The programmes at IGRMS will begin with a special exhibition, 'Sohang' (masks) worn by Kokna and Warli tribes of Maharashtra and Dadar Nagar Haveli organised at Avritti Bhawan of Manav Sangrahalaya.
Marking the day, Sangrahalaya is inaugurating two workshops of Madhubani paintings and Chhau Dance under 'Do and learn' series. This will be followed by a colloquium on the theme ‘Musuem Collections — Make Connections' at Rock art Conference hall of IGRMS at 12:30 pm. On the evening of May 18 and 19, 2014, traditional mask dance – Chhau of Jharkhand and Bohda of Maharashtra will be performed at Charaevati Open Air stage of Manav Sangrahalaya.
Further Madhav Rao Sapre Smriti Samachar Patra Sangrahalaya is organising exhibition, Regional Science Centre will mount an exhibition on ‘My Own Collection’, Tribal Musuem would mount exhibition 'Srishti', Bijakshara Sangrahalaya will include five new idols and display five special stones and Dushyant Kumar Smarak Pandulipi Sangrahalaya would organize exhibition of letters and postcards of renowned authors.