Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya organised another chapter of its popular series, Curatorial Talk Show today where Museum Associate of Manav Sangrahalaya, Garima Anand Dubey spoke on ‘Tribes of Pachmarhi: Some Anthropological Observations’.
The programme was chaired by Prof Sarit Kumar Chaudhari (Director, IGRMS). Programme coordinator, Rakesh Bhatt said that in the late 1980s museum education programme was started to connect people with the museum. Now the workshops have become a necessity of the residents of Bhopal and have successfully connected to millions of new visitors.
Dubey said, “Sangrahalaya as part of its programme to salvage and preserve local resource management traditions, the museum organized demonstration and training under its 'Do and learn' Museum Education Programme. This programme brings out not only the knowledge associated with different traditional art forms but also creates awareness towards such traditions amongst the masses and makes attempt for moral boosting of respective crafts persons.”
Garima said, “From beginning of this programme in 1988-89 till now more than 200 workshops has been organised. Initially very limited and easily affordable craft forms like clay, stitching and painting were introduced latter variety of art forms including traditional and innovative has been incorporated and the series covered Kashmir to Kanyakumari.”
In her lecture Garima Anand gave numerous examples from past three decades where school students or art enthusiasts undertook training in all workshops for a decade or longer period and has inculcated it in their life. Also gave example of few trainees who are now
successful artist and art trainers and taking these indigenous arts to general public.