A three-day national workshop on conservation of ethnographic specimens held at the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya concluded here on Saturday.
On this occasion, Prof KK Jain, former dean of the National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology, while discussing on conservation of ethnographic specimens, said that decaying of leather can be controlled by following adequate measures and treatment. By proper storage and preventive conservation through display, transport and handling, specimens in museum can be easily put up for visitors.
In the valedictory session while expressing views on the workshop, KK Jain said workshop like this brings positive results and is much more relevant in conserving paintings in wider aspects. Director, IGMRS, Arun Kumar Shrivastava on this occasion said that conservation has a big role to shape museum and such kind of workshop proves to be very beneficial for all museum professionals and assured that this trend of organising such workshops hopefully will be continued in future also. He added measures and treatments discussed in this three-day workshop have been essentially useful for the participants in conserving paintings and other objects. later certificates were distributed to participants.
Meanwhile, the Sangrahalaya is organising a special lecture under the series, ‘Public Interest lecture Series,’ on September 9 at Aviriti Bhawan, Manav Sangarahalaya. In this lecture series renowned anthropologist Vijay Prakash Sharma of the National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, will deliver his lecture on “Man, Museum and Culture”.