Museum to come up showcasing Haryana's history

The Haryana Health and Archives Minister, Anil Vij on Tuesday said a State-level Museum would be set up over an area of two acres in Panchkula costing `20 crore.He said work to set up this museum would soon commence as its design  was being prepared. “This museum would   preserve ancient documents, letters, historical books related to history of the State and provide congenial  atmosphere for research,” the Minister said. 

The Archives Department would digitise the history of the State so that old historical facts are preserved safely. Vij said the Department preserves and keeps in its possession old manuscripts, old maps, cartographic material, old news papers, rare documents and rare documents.He added that all old documents available with people in rural and urban areas would be collected and got digitised. Special teams would be constituted to collect such documents. This would also help research scholars.