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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND INTENSIVE SEMINAR ON STRATEGIC TRANSFORMATIONS: MUSEUMS IN 21st CENTURY Abstracts NEW DELHI - KOLKATA, INDIA FEBRUARY 10 -14, 2014 Venues Organized by NATIONAL COUNCIL OF SCIENCE MUSEUMS INDIAN MUSEUM, KOLKATA in collaboration with (Ministry of Culture, Government of India) NATIONAL MUSEUM, NEW DELHI INDIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF ICOM Supported by C S 1. National Science Centre, Delhi 2. National Museum, Delhi 3. Science City, Kolkata 4. Indian Museum, Kolkata 5. National Council of Science Museums, Kolkata (Conference Secretariat) Designed and Published by National Council of Science Museums Ministry of Culture, Government of India C S 5 4 3 2 1

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND

INTENSIVE SEMINARON

STRATEGIC TRANSFORMATIONS: MUSEUMS IN 21st CENTURY

Abstracts

NEW DELHI - KOLKATA, INDIA

FEBRUARY 10 -14, 2014

Venues

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Organising Committee

1. Patron: Dr. Saroj Ghose Museum Advisor to the President, Govt. of India Former DG, NCSM & Former President, ICOM2. Chair: Mr. G. S. Rautela Director General National Council of Science Museums, Kolkata3. International Advisor: Prof. Amareswar Galla Executive Director, International Institute for the Inclusive Museum, Denmark/Australia4. Organising Secretary: Mr. Samarendra Kumar Director (Hqrs) National Council of Science Museums, Kolkata

5. Mr. S. Mukherjee, Director General, CSVSM, Mumbai6. Dr. A. Nagendra Reddy, Director, Salarjung Museum, Hyderabad7. Dr. J. Sengupta, Secretary and Curator, Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata8. Dr. B. Venugopal, Director, Indian Museum, Kolkata9. Dr. Arun Kumar Chatterejee, Chairman, INC-ICOM10. Mr. R. Purohit, Director, Allahabad Museum, Allahabad11. Mr. A. S. Manekar, Deputy Director General, NCSM, Kolkata12. Mr. A. Dutta Choudhury, Director, Science City, Kolkata13. Sk E. Islam, Director, Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Kolkata14. Mr. S. Chaudhuri, Director, Central Research & Training Laboratory, Kolkata15. Mr. D. Rama Sarma, Director, National Science Centre, New Delhi

Members

Conference e-mail- [email protected]

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND

INTENSIVE SEMINARON

STRATEGIC TRANSFORMATIONS: MUSEUMS IN 21st CENTURY

Abstracts

NEW DELHI - KOLKATA, INDIA FEBRUARY 10 -14, 2014

Organized byNATIONAL COUNCIL OF SCIENCE MUSEUMS

INDIAN MUSEUM, KOLKATAin collaboration with

(Ministry of Culture, Government of India)NATIONAL MUSEUM, NEW DELHI

INDIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF ICOMSupported by

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Sunday, 9 February, 2014Venue: National Science Centre, New Delhi

09.00A.M. – 09.30 A.M. Registration

09.30 A.M. – 10.30 A.M. Inaugural Session

Inauguration & Theme Lecture

10.30A.M. – 11.00 A.M. Tea Break

11.00 A.M. – 01.00 P.M. Session-I 'Museums and Transformations'

Session Chair: Dr. Saroj Ghose, Museum Advisor to the President of India & Former President ICOM andFormer DG, NCSM

Introduction of Keynote SpeakerMr. Rob Lynes, Country Director, British Council (India)

Key note address:'Like a book that is open and not shut: Opening up 21st century museums’Mr. Martin Roth, Director, V&A, London, UK

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04.00 P.M. – 05.30 P.M.

Curtain Raiser: ‘Global Trends in Museums’A lecture by Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Hinz,

President, The International Council of

Museums (ICOM) followed by interaction with

Museum Professionals

thMonday, 10 February, 2014Venue: National Science Centre, New Delhi

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01.00 P.M. – 02.00 P.M. Lunch Break

02.00 P.M. – 03.00 P.M. Session-I contd. Session Chair :

Lead Presentations:

• ‘Benchmarking- Transformations against

the 21st Century Museum Contexts’

Prof. Amareswar Galla, Executive Director,

International Institute for the Inclusive

Museum, Australia/ India /Denmark

• ‘Museum of Tomorrow: Developing a New

Vision - with special reference to CSMVS,

Mumbai’

Mr. S. Mukherjee, Director General, ChatrapatiShivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay, Mumbai, India

Mrs. Tasneem Mehta, Hon. Trustee, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai, IndiaQ & A Session

Mr. S. Mukherjee, Director General, Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay, Mumbai, India

Lead Presentation:

• ‘Transforming A National Museum’ Dr. Gordon Rintoul, Director, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburg, UK• ‘Museum and Transformation in Asia’ Prof. Hongnam Kim, Former Director General, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, ROK• ‘Transforming a 200 year old Museum: Opportunities & Challenges’ Dr. B. Venugopal, Director, Indian Museum, Kolkata, India

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• ‘The Museum as Muse: Creating New Contexts for Old Collections’

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• ‘Rationale For Transformation of Museums And Exhibits Using Technology’ Shri D. Rama Sarma, Director, NSC Delhi, India

03.00 P.M. – 03.15 P.M Tea Break

03.15 P.M. – 04.30 P.M. Session-I Contd. Session Chair :

Dr. Arun Kumar Chatterjee, Chairman, INC-

ICOMLead Presentations:• ‘Transformation in National Museums: 3 Case studies from Europe’ Dr. Steven Englesman, Director, Weltmuseum. Wien, Austria Presentations:

• ‘Museums and Transformation : Case Studies of Museums in Malaysia’ Mdm. Zarinah Sarifan, Curator, Department of Museums, Malaysia • ‘Engagement and Outreach: Experiences from Museums of UK’ Dr. Ambika Bipin Patel, Associate Prof., Deptt. of Museology, Faculty of Fine Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao Univ. of Baroda• ‘Museums and Transformations with reference to Dharohar Museum, Haryana’ Dr. Mahasingh Poonia, Curator, Dharohar Museum, Haryana• ‘Museums and Transformations - International case studies of Museums of United Kingdom’ Ms. Joyee Roy, Assistant Curator, Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata• ‘Anthropological Museums: Are they �it to project Melting Culture’

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Mr. Sudarshan Vaidya, Assistant Keeper,

Anthropological Survey of India, DehradunQuestions & Answers

04.30 P.M. – 07.00 P.M. Studt Visit to Historical Monuments in Delhi

07.30 P.M. Of�icial Dinner at Sanskriti, New Delhi

thTuesday, 11 February, 2014

Venue: National Museum, New Delhi

10.00 A.M. – 11.30 A.M. Session-II 'Museums and Digital Domain'

Welcome Address:Dr. Venu Vasudevan, Director General,

National Museum & VC, NMI, New DelhiSession Chair: Mr. A. S. Manekar, DDG, NCSM

Lead Presentation: 'Transforming Indian Museums Using Digital Technologies' Dr. Dinesh Katre, Associate Director, C-DAC, Pune (JATAN software), India on Harvesting Digital Technology in Museums' Mr. S. M. Khened, Director, NSC Mumbai, India

• ‘Digitization, Digital Access, Digital Heritage Management in Bangladesh National Museum’ Mr. Prokash Chandra Das, Director General (Additional Secretary), Bangladesh National Museum Presentations:• ‘Signi�icance of Digital Preservation of Heritage Materials and its Constraints’ Dr. Abduraheem K., Associate Professor Department of Museology, AMU Aligarh, India

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11.30 A.M. – 12.00 Noon Tea Break

12.00 Noon – 01.30 P.M. Session-II Contd.

Session Chair: Prof. Amareswar Galla, Executive Director,

International Institute for the Inclusive Museum,

Australia/India/Denmark

Lead Presentations: • ‘Importance of the use of digital media in museums’ Dr. Carolyn Royston, Head of Digital Media, Imperial War Museum, UK• ‘Digital Tech. for Museums’ Mr. Ranjit Makkuni, MD, Sacred World, India• ‘Immersive Show: History comes alive’ Mr. A. D. Choudhury, Director, Science City, Kolkata, India• ‘ The Emerging Power of Social Networking’ Prof. B. R. Natarajan, President (VC), Sangam University, Bhilwara• ‘Communication and Digital Technologies’ Mr. Gulshan Kharbanda, CEO, Akriti Designs• ‘Human interactive robots in 21st century museums – Challenges and Promises’ Jayakrishnan T, C.E.O, ASIMOV Robotics Pvt. Ltd, Kochi, Kerala• ‘Digital Exhibits’ Mr. Ankit Agarwal, MD, Innovatiview, Delhi

01.30 P.M. – 02.30 P.M Lunch Break

02.30 P.M. – 03.30 P.M. Visit to National Museum

03.30 P.M. – 03.45 P.M. Departure for Crafts Museum

03.45 P.M. – 05.00 P.M. Visit to Crafts Museum, Delhi & High Tea Evening Free

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thWednesday, 12 February, 2014

Study Visit to Monuments in Agra (Taj Mahal and Fatehpur Sikri)

07.00 A.M. Departure for Agra

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Thursday, 13 February, 2014Venue: Science City, Kolkata

11.00 A.M – 11.30 A.M. Keynote Address: 'Museums and Transformations in Post Reuni�ication of Germany' Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Hinz, President, ICOM, Paris, France

11.30 A.M. – 12.15 P.M. Session-III 'Museums and Human Resource Development'

Session Chair: Mr. G. S. Rautela, Director General, NCSM, India

'Transforming people to transform museums'

, Director, Museums Mr. Mark Taylor Association, UK

Human Resources for Museums: Museology in India' Prof. Supreo Chanda, Associate Professor, Dept. of Museology, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India

Lead Presentation:

‘HRD based on change management for

the Employees of the General museums in

India’Mr. Rajesh Purohit, Director, Allahabad

Museum, Allahabad, India

10.00 A.M – 11.00 A.M. Registration

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12.15 P.M. – 12.30 P.M. Tea Break'12.30 P.M. – 01.30 P.M. Session-III 'Museums and Human Resource Development' Contd.

Session Chair: Dr. Jayant Sengupta, Secretary and Curator, Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata

Lead Presentations:

• ‘Human Resource Strategy for 21st century Museums-The Role of Intrinsic Qualities of Man in shaping Mind of Museum’ Prof. (Dr.) R. P. Banerjee, Director, EIILM- India• ‘Training of Museum Professionals in India –requirements and challenges’ Dr. Manvi Seth, HoD, Museology, National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation & Museology, Delhi, India• ‘New age HRD for Museum’ Mr. Prokash Chandra Das, Additional Secretary & Director General, Bangladesh National Museum, Bangladesh• ‘Making Connections: New Age HRD through networking and negotiation of cultural shifts’ Mr. S. Chaudhuri, Director (CRTL), India• ‘Museums and HRD: A Case Study of Bangladesh National Museum (BNM) and an Archaeological site museum of Bangladesh’ Ms. Munira Sultana, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Bangladesh

01.30 P.M. – 02.30 P.M. Lunch Break

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02.30 P.M. – 03.30 P.M. Session-IV 'Museums and Relevance – community engagement, bene�its and active citizenship'

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Session Chair: Mr. E.Islam, Director, BITM, Kolkata

Presentations:

‘Engaging the Underprivileged Children with the Museum: Making a Difference in the Quest of Learning' Ms. Piyasi Bharasa, Assistant Professor, Department of Museology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India on Museum & Relevance: The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya – A Case Study' Ms. Renu Jathar, Assistant Curator, Art, CSMVS, Mumbai, India • ‘Connecting Schools and Communities with Museums’ Ms. Roberta Altman, Graduate Faculty, Bank Street College of Education and Higher Education Consultant, American Museum of Natural History, USA (Virtual Presentation)

03.30 P.M. – 04.30 P.M. Session-IV Contd. Presentations:

‘Museum and Community Involvement : A Case Study of Community Engagement Initiatives at Gandhi Memorial Museum, Barrackpore' Mr. Pratik Ghosh, Keeper, Gandhi Memorial Museum, Barrackpore, Kolkata, India

Community Participation in Anthropological Museums' by Dr. Tilak Bagchi, Assistant Keeper, Anthropological Survey of India, Udaipur, India

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‘Relevance of Anthropological Museum in the Age of Globalization' Mr. Nilanjan Khatua, Assistant Keeper, Anthropological Survey of India, Mysore

• ‘Museums and its relevance to community development in West Bengal’ Ms. Sudakshina Mukherjee, Coordinator, Department of Museology, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata• ‘Cyber museology: A proactive approach for safeguarding Community heritage’

Ms. Shilpi Roy, UGC Senior Research Fellow,

Dept. of Museology, University of Calcutta

200 years celebration of Indian Museum,

Kolkata and Of�icial DinnerRemarks by Mr. Stephan Roman, Regional

Director, British Council (South Asia)

04.30 P.M. - 04.45 P.M. Tea Break

05.00 P.M. - 06.00 P.M. Cultural Evening by EZCC

04.45 P.M. - 05.00 P.M. Visit to Science City, Kolkata

thFriday, 14 February, 2014

Venue: Indian Museum, Kolkata

10.00 A.M. – 11.30 A.M. Session-V

'Museums and Relevance: Making Changes

using Culture as a tool'

Session Chair:

Mr. K. G. Kumar, Director, VITM, Bangaluru, India

Keynote Address: “ Inclusive Museums of Tomorrow” Dr. Saroj Ghose, Museum Advisor to the

President of India & Former President ICOM

and Former DG, NCSM

07.30 P.M.

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12.00 Noon–01.30 P.M. Session-V Contd.

11.30 A.M. – 12.00 Noon Tea Break

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Lead Presentations:

• What Difference can Museums Make’? Mr. Martin Bellamy, Collection Research Manager, Glasgow Museum Research Centre, UK• ‘Science Museums: In search of relevance in the 21st century’ Dr. E. Islam, Director, BITM, India• ‘Living Museums of Bengal’ Ms. Ananya Bhatacharya, Director, banglanatak dotcom followed by a short performance by artists

Presentations:

‘Museum: An instrument of Change' Dr. Rayaprolu Venkata Ramana, Assistant Professor in Museology, The Maharaja University of Baroda, India Digitising Sacred Groves: A technological Approach in preserving aboriginal heritage' Ms. Amrita Dey, U.G.C-Senior Research Fellow, Department of Museology, University of Calcutta

• ‘Instrumentalism in Museum Learning’

Mr. Azfar Husain, Research Scholar, Jamia Millia Islamia Central University, Delhi, India

02.30 P.M. – 03.45 P.M. Session-VI Panel Discussion on 'STRATEGIC TRANSFORMATIONS: MUSEUMS IN 21st CENTURY'

Moderator:Prof. Amareswar Galla, Executive Director,

01.30 P.M. – 02.30 P.M. Lunch Break

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03.45 P.M. – 04.00 P.M. Tea Break

04.00 P.M. Concluding session

Remarks Prof. Hans Martin Hinz, President, ICOM, Dr. Saroj Ghose, Museum Advisor to the President of India & Former President ICOM Prof. Amareswar Galla, Executive Director, International Institute for the Inclusive Museum, Australia/ India/Denmark Mr. G. S. Rautela, Director General, NCSM

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International Institute for the Inclusive Museum, Australia/India/Denmark

Panellists: Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Hinz, President, ICOM, Paris, France Mr. Martin Roth, Director of the V&A Museum, London, UK Dr. Saroj Ghose, Museum Advisor to the President of India & Former President ICOM and Former DG, NCSM Prof. Hongnam Kim, Former Director, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, ROK Carolyn Royston, Head of Digital Media, Imperial Museum, UK Mr. S. Mukherjee, DG, CSMVS, Mumbai, India Dr. Gordon Rintoul, Director, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburg, UK Dr. Steven Engelsman, Director, Weltmuseum. Wien, Austria Mr. Mark Taylor, Director, Museums Associations, UK Mr. G. S. Rautela, Director General, NCSM

Dr. B. Venugopal, Director, Indian Museum, Kolkata, India Dr. Arun Kumar Chatterjee, Chairman, INC-ICOM

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Regardless of their intentions, museums have always meant different things to different audiences. Some see them as a source of entertainment to view curious objects for this beauty. Others see them as educational resource to learn more about art, history and objects of cultural signicance. Museums are an essential part of our public realm not only because many of them successfully contribute to education, citizenship and other government objectives but also because many of them have a long term social function. So our museums serve many purposes.

In recent years there has been a transition from an economy based in goods to an economy based in knowledge. Knowledge has become the most transacted product in actual economy, and museums are producers of knowledge. Free choice learning is getting more important and museums are free choice learning spaces. As knowledge and learning spaces, museums may be spaces for development of critical and creative thinking. The contribution of museums to the development of thinking skills is based on the principles that a museum is a space of construction of knowledge and free choice learning, and visitors are interpreters construct meaning. Globalization is changing the way people work and live. One of the major challenges society faces today is to prepare individuals and organizations to deal with change and rapid proliferation of information and new effective ways of communicating it. Today individuals are part of a continuously transforming and learning community. As a consequence of this transformation, museums also face a rapidly changing culture, through which their mission will be redened. The World Wide Web is redening core museum tasks as collecting, preserving, and exhibiting. The reach of museums is more local, its global. The digitization of millions of objects in digital heritage programs leads to new forms of collections management and unparalleled access to replicas of museum artifacts. This transformation is changing museums as we know them: it inspires new forms of preserving, displaying and understanding cultures both on- and off-line.

Now it is time for museums to raise their ambitions. Every museum should have the ambition to change and society changes. There are inspiring examples of museums that have made that commitment. Every museum is different and there is no ‘one size ts all’ solution, but all can nd ways of maximizing their social impact. Each museum will nd its own approach, based on the needs of its publics, its context and its collection and other assets.

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Museums need to be exible and responsive, regularly changing displays and exhibitions to meet changing interests and demands and offering activities, programmes and events to meet a wide range of needs and interests.

Transforming a museum to improve its impact and make them sustainable will need a strong sense of purpose, clear organizational values, skills and rm commitment from all levels of the organisation. It means moving on from a general sense that the museum provides public benet to identifying precisely how it will best make a dened and explicit contribution: to decide what it is going to do to support positive social change. Above all, this is about an attitude of mind: a clear commitment to address the needs of individuals, communities, society and the environment. It’s time for our museum to respond to hard times by making a paradigm shift. Museums to weigh tremendous opportunities offered by technology for conducting the business of museums as well as for communicating with the public. They also need new sets of skills to manage the change. Transforming the museums is need of the hour. It’s time for us to play our part in helping museums change people’s lives.

I hope that the discussion in this conference continues, so that museums will explore and develop further opportunities to encourage young audiences and lifelong learners to engage with the museums activities. I am sure that this interaction will provide a useful and thought-provoking tool for all of those involved in the development of these important cultural institutions in the future.

G. S Rautela Director General National Council of Science Museums

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thMonday, 10 February, 2014

‘Museums and Transformations’

Sub-Theme

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Martin Eugen Roth Director, V & A Museum, V&A South KensingtonCromwell RoadLondon SW7 2RLe-mail- [email protected]

'Like a book that is open and not shut': Opening up 21st century museums

The rst Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Henry Cole, said in1857 'this museum will be like a book that is open and not shut'. This bold democratic statement still holds weight for museums today. Yet collections are now read by visitors in the context of a radically different world order and via new global communication platforms.

Martin Roth, Cole's modern successor, will discuss how museums can be truly‘open’ in contemporary global society and develop transformative strategiesto realise this long-established goal in the 21st century.

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Keynote Address

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Prof. Amareswar Galla, PhDExecutive Director, International Institute for the Inclusive MuseumP.O.Box – 803, Copenhagen Ø 2100, DENMARKPhone: +45 2764 6227e-mail- [email protected]: www.inclusivemuseum.org

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Benchmarking Transformations against the 21st Century Museum Contexts

The contextual frameworks for museums have been rapidly diversifying across the world despite the accelerated pace of all forms of globalisation and homogenisation. The diversication of the resource base of museums has been marked by factors such as the increased demand for–responses to the Global Financial Crisis; quality experiences in cultural and heritage tourism; transformative learning spaces for educational purposes; use of collections, especially Islamic collections in counter terrorism strategies; urban renewals; reanimation of collections; and reinvention of collections from source communities through the so called museums of world cultures. However, very few museums have addressed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and poverty alleviation despite MDGs being the main concern of the UN since the turn of the Century. Do museums care about poverty? Have museums become agents for elite renewal and parlours for the burgeoning middle class values? Do museums have the capacity to engage with the cultural and linguistic diversity of the world in general and their respective countries in particular? How are museums addressing increasing illicit trafc in cultural property with growth in borderless trade and tourism? What kind of conscience do museumspromote? What are the ethics of museological engagement in the contemporary world? What constitutes benchmarking and for what purpose in the corporate world of museums? How do we measure and benchmark museums and their relevance against the drafting of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the UN post 2015 Development Agenda? The main focus of this paper is based on these questions and an examination of changing museum contexts.

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Mr. Sabyasachi MukherjeeDirector GeneralChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya159-161 Mahatma Gandhi Road,Fort, Mumbai - 400023, Maharashtra, India.Ph: +91.022.22844484 | 22844519Fax: +91.022.22045430e-mail- [email protected]

Museum of Tomorrow: Developing a New Vision - with special reference to CSMVS, Mumbai. “Traditional cultural institutions were created in different times for different audiences than the ones they now have to serve. When in past, mapping, collecting and preserving cultural goods were of major importance, today cultural institutions are required to connect with the society and represent the people they serve”. Urban Changes & Culture Conference of Encounters, Kolkata.

The concept of Museum is changing very fast all over the world each passing day. Today, it is not merely a store house of antiquities which establishes a link between the past and the present, but an important centre of culture and education that touches all aspects of human lives. It also plays an important role in the cultural, social and economic development of society and is making sincere efforts to fulll this function.

Museums have the duty to acquire, preserve and promote their collections as a contribution to safeguarding the natural cultural and scientic heritage. The presentation will discuss certain emerging trends in the context of world Museums and challenges faced by the Indian Museums.

It also examines the role of Museum and its relevance in a contemporary society which begins with the present, from which it explores the past and imagines the future, guided by the needs and expectations of its actual and potential visitors, staff, broader community and stakeholders. It is ultimately a Museum which values as ‘heritage’ not only objects or collections but rst and foremost individuals and the richness they embody: stories, ideas, emotions, values, desires, fears and hopes.

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Mrs. Tasneem Zakaria MehtaManaging Trustee & Honorary DirectorDr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City MuseumVeermata Jijamata Bhosale UdyanA-91 Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar RoadByculla – East, Mumbai – 400 027Tel: 022- 65719211e-mail- [email protected]

The Museum as Muse: Creating New Contexts for Old Collections.

The Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum has in the short space of time since it reopened in January 2008, after a comprehensive restoration that won Unesco’s highest award of excellence, emerged as a leading cultural institution in Mumbai. It is the rst government Museum to sign a Public Private Partnership agreement that includes being governed by an autonomous Trust. The transformation included not just the restoration of the building and the artefacts but dening the institutional structure from scratch, including hiring new staff, creating governance norms and bylaws, and introducing best practices. The Museum has focussed on engaging the community thorough massive education programmes for all ages, and by interrogating its collection and history through its innovative exhibitions. It has collaborated with several international museums and cultural institutions to present important exhibitions. The latest outreach involves making it a multi-cultural hub for Mumbai. It has embarked on an ambitious expansion plan that involves substantially enlarging its facilities. An international architectural competition is under way. The presentation will focus on this transformation from a mere repository of 19th century artefacts to a dynamic contemporary institution.

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Dr. Gordon Rintoul DirectorNational Museums ScotlandChambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JFe-mail- [email protected]

Transforming a National Museum

Over the past decade or so there have been a number of signicant successful transformations of major national and regional museums in a number of countries across the world. While these redevelopments have varied in scope and scale, there are a number of common factors which can be identied in relation to their success.

This paper will use the recent and continuing redevelopmentof the National Museum of Scotland as a case study of the successful transformation of a major national museum. Following completion of the latest phase in its Masterplan, the National Museum of Scotland was successful in achieving and sustaining a two and a half fold increase in visit numbers, in broadening its audience base and in establishing its visibility and reputation internationally. Collections were reviewed and brought out of storage, an historic building restored and updated, and dynamic public programmes created to attract and engage visitors.

The paper will outline the background to these changes,some of the challenges faced, the key elements involved in the delivery of the project and the factors which are considered to have made the project a continuing success.

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Dr. Hongnam KimProfessor Emeritus, Ewha Womans University, SeoulFormer Director, National Museums of Korea and the National Folk Museum of Korea.The Asia Museum Institute, 35-94 Samchung-dong, Jongro-gu, Seoul, KoreaTel:+82-(0)70-4147-4616 CP:+82-(0)10-5351-4617 e-mail- [email protected]

Museum and Transformation in Asia

1.From Fragmentation to Integration: Reection on the Post-Colonial Nationalism in Asian Museums and Reconstruction of Asian civilization

A half century of the post-Colonial Asia nurtured nationalism, at some countries ultra-nationalism, to reestablish the national identity and to restore the wounded pride. Public museums, mostly initiated by the government, were in the forefront of this endeavor, focused on the preservation of national heritage. It is about the time for the leading mainstream museums of Asia to reect on this exclusive nationalistic phenomenon and to penetrate into what it has done to fragment Asian Civilization. Civilization is “one in all, all in one.” Some efforts made at the National Museum of Korea and the National Folk Museum of Korea will be introduced.

2.Back to Contents: Creative Scholarly Curatorship

Management skills, educational programing, and exhibition technology are the means to deliver the messages. They can be acquired and enhanced by learning and imitating. But the messages cannot be acquired. They have to be created based on the curatorial interpretation of tangible and intangible heritage with vision and scholarship and without prejudice. Directors and curators are the people who are responsible in the creation of signals and messages. As evident in the case of religion and philosophy, for example, the cross-cultural transmission is enormously important in the making of Asian civilization. We may question how much of such cross-cultural aspect has been actually integrated into the contents at Asia’s leading museums.

3.Responsibilities of Heritage Preservation: Exploration of New Types of Museums

Denition of heritage has expanded far beyond tangible objects and monuments. The world has begun exploring new types of museums, both tangible and intangible, and both indoor and outdoor. This change has been fanned by the UNESCO’s World Cultural Heritage Registration Act. Fundamental to this actis the notion that a nation’s heritage is also a precious part of the world heritage. Such registration, competitive as it is now all over the world, boosts national and civic pride and cultural tourism. Critical to the success of such heritage preservation and management effort is the involvement of museums and the adaptation of museological approach. This is because museums are fundamentally non-prot, no nonsense, educational institutions, equipped with knowledge and experience in content development, capacity-building, preservation, and application.

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D. Rama SarmaDirector National Science CentreNear Gate No.1, Pragati MaidanBhairon Road, New Delhi - 110 001Ph./Fax: 011-23371263e-mail- [email protected]

Rationale for Transformation of Museums and Exhibits using Technology

With increasing proliferation of digital and social media into real life, the distinction between the virtual and the real is getting increasingly blurred. Digital and social media are now being employed to clarify, enhance and augment reality in all spheres of human activity, including Museums. In such a situation, museum/science centre professionals need to incorporate these newer and emerging technologies and philosophies to bring increased clarity, ll gaps and augment experiences. Incorporating technologies and trends like augmented realities, social media, crowd sourcing for ideas etc. are just some ways to achieve this end. The major transformations that will manifest themselves in the next decade or two in museum practices will be on account of this blurring of lines between real and virtual media and changing trends in learning methods.

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Dr. Steven Boudewijn EngelsmanDirectorWeltmuseum WienNeue Burg, Heldenplatz, 1010 Wien, Austria.e-mail- [email protected]

Transformations in National Museums – three case studies from Europe.

Anywhere in the world, museums are important institutions. They are the repositories of art, culture, history, identity of the peoples, the communities or the nations that have established them and kept them going. Many of them have long histories, of decades or even centuries. The Indian Museum in Kolkata with its bicentennial to be celebrated this week is a case in point. With a history that long, museums live through many changes in their social, cultural and governmental environment and context. And obviously, when the environment and the people around the museum change, the museum must in some way adapt to those changes as well. However, as a rule, such adaptation is very slow, and may lag behind for a long time. That might land the museum in a position where it becomes neglected, irrelevant and no longer of interest to the communities that it was originally intended to serve. Then it either fades away, or all of a sudden the bright scenario starts and the neglected institution is empowered to transform and become a new and shiny cultural institution again. In the lecture I will present three case studies from the Netherlands and Austria of such drastic paradigm shifts.

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Mrs. Zarinah binti SarifanJabatan Muzium MalaysiaCurator of Museum Services DivisionDepartment of Museums MalaysiaJalan Damansara50566 Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaPhone: 603-22671000 e-mail- [email protected]

Museums and Transformation: Case Studies of Museums in Malaysia

The new millennium poses a challenge for the museums and museum personnel. There are some arguments that museums must transform themselves if they want to remain relevant to 21st century audience. But, there are some constrains especially to developing country like Malaysia in re-establishing the relevance of museum to society as a whole in the new era. It includes nancial uncertainty, technological changes, societal changes, communities attitude, mind-set and others.

There are hundreds of museums in Malaysia. The growth of museums in this country has been gaining momentum steadily and has been of great signicance in the late 20th century. In the wake of the new millennium, the government’s recognition and concern for the importance of culture and arts has seen many new museums being established either by the government, corporation and the private sectors. From hundreds of museum, 21 of them are under Department of Museums Malaysia and categorize as Federal Museum. Besides that, Malaysia has the State Museums, Institutional Museums and Individual Museums.

Graham Black in ‘Transforming Museums in the Twenty-First Century’ (2012) states that the museums in this millennia should convert audience from casual one-off visitors into regular users by few criteria. These include in formal learning, museums and formal learning, conversations around collections, stimulating family conversations in the museums, engaging communities to civil engagement and etc. To make it happen is a big challenge for the museum personnel, especially when the museums are facing with nancial constraints.

Malaysia is not exception, and we will learn the experience via this seminar.

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Dr. Ambika PatelAssociate Professor, Department of Museology, Faculty of Fine Arts, Pushpabaug, Prof. C. C. Mehta Road, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara-390002. e-mail- [email protected] Ph (Mobile):9426049741

Engagement and Outreach: Experiences from Museums of UK

Museums and galleries across UK, irrespective of their differential operational status and federal funding namely British Museum and V&A with national status to museum like Discovery at Newcastle and Beamish at Durham county with regional status, are holding their own events and developing learning packages to engage learners of all ages with their heritage. Programs like INSET for teachers to unlock the museums resources for schools and a chance for teachers to develop closer links with museums are widely in practice. “Museums for Changing Lives” the project for developing innovative literacy programs and resources in museums and the north east UK museums have created special contribution in this area. SEN programs are conducted by all most all museums to cater the differently abled children. The “Box of Delights”, one of the services created among the diverse learning programs by Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums Group has got great popularity and appreciation in the region. The current presentation will be an analytical comparison of engagement and outreach programs of various UK museums and their efforts in making transformations possible in wider perspectives. The presentation is based on rst hand experiences and research done by the scholar at various UK museums as a part of her Nehru Trust-Charles Wallace UK Visiting Fellowship 2013.

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Dr. Mahasingh PooniaHead of the Department of Hindi (UCK)Curator, Dharohar Haryana MuseumKurukshetra University, KurukshetraMob : 09896567170e-mail- [email protected] [email protected]

Museums and Transformations with reference to Dharohar Museum, Haryana

As the state of Haryana is facing fast urbanization and modernization at present, there is an urgent need for preservation and protection of its cultural heritage both in tangible and intangible forms. Dharohar Haryana museum established in 2006, stand as a mile stone in playing a signicant role in preserving the cultural heritage of the state of Haryana through its collection, communication and outreach. The museum has grown from its incipient Phase I to Phase II through last seven years and became a role model in showcasing the village heritage and its art and craft. The open air theater which is used for live demonstrations and the traditional food court meant for serving the traditional Haryanavi cuisines are the special features added to meet the demands of the facilities of a modern museum. The present paper highlights the transformations of Dharohar and its role in preserving traditional heritage.

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Sudarshan VaidyaAssistant Keeper, Zonal Anthropological Museum, Anthropological Survey of India,North West Regional Center,192/1, Kaulagarh Road, Dehradun (Uttarakhand) IndiaPincode : 248195.Phone: 9319705025e-mail- [email protected]

Anthropological Museum: Are they t to project Melting Culture

Today, museums are not like just display boards, attractive pictures in frames or only places of amusement for the visitors, rather a repository of culture, a comprehensive godown of knowledge and oating history of a civilization. Since the culture, cultural characteristics and dimensions of cultural and social thoughts of tribal and non- tribal societies are rapidly changing, the whole concept of traditional set up of anthropological museum too, are to be changed. Since our tribal culture, particularly of North West Region of India is seriously and fastly transforming from age old traditional living to so called modern wearing, the whole concept of Anthropological museum too, needs to be changed. The cultural scenario of a tribe or region should not be displayed in museum, only through xed specimens on pedestals or static cultural traits on grounds. It is to be functional, operative and live in its real display sense. This paper deals with the options and measures to be taken for gradual change in setting and requirements of an Anthropological museum.

Key Words: Anthropological Museum, Culture, Society, Tradition, Transformation.

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Joyee RoyCuratorial OfcialVictoria Memorial HallKolkata, IndiaPh. No. 09433512693/ 09830339918e-mail- [email protected]

Museums and Transformations - International case studies of Museums of United Kingdom

Tangible and Intangible Heritage are scientically documentated, cared, maintained, conserved, restored and exhibited through Museums. A truly meaningful and obvious change is being occurred in museums of all over the world. Future Plan is an ambitious programme of development, dedicated to transforming the museums by revitalizing visitor facilities, redisplaying, restoring and enhancing the collection of museums. Use of latest technology in all aspects of Museum Management is indispensible to transform towards 21st century.

Museums of all over the world are changing their views in different aspects of Heritage Managemnet. Museums of India are also trying their best though more effort may be needed.

Being at United Kingdom to attend ‘International Curatorial Training Programme’ conducted by British Museum on 2011 and to research on a project under Nehru Fellowship on 2013, a sea change in every aspect of museum management was experienced, which I may desire to share through case studies. Mainly my studies will be based on unique and meaningful experience at British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, Manchester University Museum and Courtauld Art Gallery Museum of U.K.

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V. Kalyani

67, Kailash Apartments,Plot No. 45, I.P. Extension,Patparganj,Delhi – 110092.Telephone number: 011-22727667, 9810176550e-mail- [email protected]

Revisiting Museums with a difference in the 21st century

Museums in the past were object-oriented (Art, Archaeological and Ethnographical); limited to their collection, acquisition, conservation, preservation, restoration, research, display and were not accessible to the public but now they have become visitor-oriented which is a big step in the right direction. Since the early years of 20th century, the main aim of museums were to educate the visitors through educational activities on whatever collection they have. This itself is transformation. The importance of the museum collection should be understood by the visitors too as the museum is for the people only. There are many museums which are becoming more visitor-conscious. Though this has not caught up much with the Indian museums, some of them are really working hard towards making them more interactive with the visitors by the use of different techniques which are either technology-driven or simply volunteer-driven. Although one can spot highly enthusiastic human guides in Gandhi Smriti Museum at Tees January Marg, one museum which is an epitome in this regard is the National Museum, New Delhi which has recently introduced free guided tours not only for the general visitors (Path Pradarshak volunteer guide programme) but also for the school groups (Yuva saathi). These programmes are being successfully run by the help of volunteers, some of them being young student volunteers. Such guided tours have already set an example for other major Indian museums to have an identical service in place. Museums today have become source of entertainment and intellectual stimulation.

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‘Museums and Digital Domain’

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Dr. Dinesh S. KatreAssociate Director & HeadHuman-Centred Design and Computing (HCDC) Group Centre of Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), RMZ Westend Center - III, 4th Floor, Aundh, Pune - 411 007e-mail- [email protected] Fax: 020 2550 3180Mobile: 9922992746, Phone: 020 2550 3386

Transforming Indian Museums Using Digital Technologies

Indian civilization is known for its rich history and heritage which is very diverse in terms of political, social, cultural and scientic. However, the public access to the museum antiquities or the artefacts is constrained due to rareness and fragile, deteriorating condition of objects. The problems with regard to preservation and inaccessibility of these collections can be addressed very effectively by using the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) or digital technologies. Human-Centred Design and Computing (HCDC) Group at C-DAC Pune is pursuing the vision of transforming Indian museums into digital heritage knowledge centres, which will emerge as self-sustaining entities. Our team has developed JATAN: Virtual Museum Builder which is being implemented in the national museums as standardized by the Ministry of Culture. Presently, JATAN is being used by 13 museums across India. Our team designed and developed the Touch Screen Based Interactive Museum Applications for Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum, Mumbai. This project won the Grand Jury Manthan Award – South Asia & Asia Pacic 2012 in the e-Culture & Heritage Category. We are developing many innovative technological solutions for museums for multi-modal access, mobile conservation reporting and digital repository management. Human-Centred Design and Computing Group at C-DAC Pune has established the Centre of Excellence for Digital Preservation with sponsorship from Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India. It is a agship project under the National Digital Preservation Programme.

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Shivaprasad KhenedDirectorNehru Science Centre National Council of Science Museums Dr. E.moses Road, Worli, Mumbai - 400 018.Phone - 91-22-24920482, 24932667, 24934520, 24926042Fax - 91-22-24932668 e-mail- [email protected]

Harvesting Digital Technology for Museums

Today’s digital technologies have provided a dizzying array of tools that offer endless opportunities for museums to become more meaningful to society. The presentation will explore how museum professionals can adapt to these technological changes in preparing ourselves to reach the generation of digital natives, in democratizing knowledge, and in capitalizing the limitless possibilities of this technology, in innovative ways, to enrich visitor experience. It will show how museums can harvest digital technology to provide interactive experience, online access to digitized objects, images, and records and also in museum marketing. It will highlight how it can be used in enriching visitor experience of the many who visit the museums in person, and extending our reach to the millions who cannot. It will address how museums can use the power of the social media to connect to our visitors to increases the capacity of individuals to engage with our collections. It will also highlight how science museums in India are using this technology and the concepts of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in reshaping visitors’ museum experience by providing rich interactive experience.

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Prokash Chandra DasDirector General (Additional Secretary)Bangladesh National MuseumShahbag, Dhaka 1000Bangladeshcell: 88-02-01711587228Telephone: 88-02-8619303e-mail- [email protected]

Digitization, Digital Access, Digital Heritage Management in Bangladesh National Museum

Bangladesh National Museum (BNM) (1983) is the successor to the Dhaka Museum, which established on 7 August 1913. BNM is the largest collector and preserver of the heritage and history of Bangladesh, which range in date from prehistory to the present day. BNM creates a history through digital representation of the objects in the galleries of 'War of Liberation' and safeguarding of the objects through Object Identication System (OIS) software to fulll the goal 'Vision 2021'. We digitally represent some pictures of our greatest revolutionary leaders and their contribution to our country. Documentation on liberation war is also showing through touch screen kiosk and in big size LED monitor. We established ‘Light, Sound & Multimedia show’ to create visual effects on the visitors mind and the display makes a different dimension about our Independence. BNM and its branch museums digitalized and computerized to produce virtual museum, which is line with the activities of 'Digital Bangladesh'. All of the museum objects registered pictorially and documented to produce a unique object ID for each object and stored detail information of all objects into a Central Database System. Introduce e-communication and e-governance by establishing high speed Internet connection and LAN within BNM and its branches. Established a digital archives and library system for BNM, provide up-to-date information of BNM to users via its dynamic website.

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Dr. Abduraheem K.Chairman & Associate ProfessorDepartment of MuseologyAligarh Muslim UniversityAligarh (UP) IndiaMob. 09897067790e-mail- [email protected]

Signicance of Digital Preservation of Heritage materials and its constraints

Digital Preservation of our heritage materials perhaps the manuscripts and the fragile objects have very signicant role in the conservation. Thus the digital heritage pool gathers for off- site storage in order to protect them from natural disaster , natural ageing and other causes of physical and biological deterioration. It will be a pioneer attempt to bring all the primary sources of the traditional materials laying scattered , fragmented which are under the danger of extinctions. Therefore it is necessitate urgently to preserve our valuable heritage materials by all possible methods which are essential for reconstruction of past . The rapid growth of the Information technology, internet facilities, which enhance the means of communicating the text of both the past and present. The greatly increased ability of modern machines enables with the enhanced capacities of software packages have increased the capacities of storage many folds result the quality and quantity of rapidly capturing digital forms. As a result many new institutions were originated such as digital museum, digital libraries, digital archives and it is supposed to be increased many fold in future. It provide an easier and quick access to public without any limitations time, space and boundaries of the world.

But as compare to conventional methods of preservation the digital preservation has the following constrains and challenges . The safe storage of digital materials to prevented from damages and enable them to alive as long as possible. Therefore preventive measures to be taken to ensure the safety of the digital materials from all types of damages and problems such as hardware failure, software problems, care and storage of digital materials, Obsolesce technology etc.

The detailed account of the signicance and challenges of digital preservation of cultural heritage will be discussed in the full length paper.

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Carolyn RoystonHead of Digital Media, Imperial MuseumLambeth Rd, London SE1 6HZ, United Kingdome-mail- [email protected]

Importance of the use of digital media in museums

In this session, I will discuss the growing importance of the use of digital media in museums. In the past ten years, we have seen the launch of rst, second and even third generation museum websites, the growth and sophistication of in-gallery interpretation tools and more recently increasing engagement with mobile and social media platforms. Our visitors are more digitally savvy and expect to access museum services when they want, wherever they are and on the device of their choice – the museum is in effect now open 24/7 worldwide. Using examples from a number of UK museums, with a focus on the Imperial War Museums, I will show the signicant impact digital has made as it permeates and disrupts all aspects of museums’ activities.

Specically, the presentation will cover the importance and challenges of developing, delivering and sustaining a digital strategy within a cultural organisation, how to embed digital activity so it is part of a wider public engagement programme, ways to manage the digital transformation and build digital capacity and how to support staff in developing their digital skills so they are equipped to meet the new digital challenges.

I will also talk about the First World War Centenary and the Imperial War Museum’s role as the UKcultural lead for the commemoration. Leading a partnership of over 2,000 national and international cultural organisations, I will discuss the museum’s programme for the Centenary, including the digital project Lives of the First World War, and how it ts into a wider national programme of events.

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Mr. A. Dutta ChoudhuryDirector Science CityJBS Haldane AvenueKolkata 700046 e-mail- [email protected]

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Immersive Show: History Comes Alive

Museums are no more merely places for seeing the relics of the past in closed glass cabinets. Rapid development of digital technologies and their increasing accessibility has created a myriad of challenges and opportunities for museums.To meet the expectations of the modern audience, smart use of technology is making the museum experience more meaningful as well as a learning experience. Special spaces are also being created to make content come alive in an immersive environment where even familiar material can be experienced and understood in a whole new way.

Museums across the world use life size models, excavated collections, replicas etc. to portray the story of human evolution. Some museums have supplemented their rich collections with outstanding lms to make the museum experience more meaningful and entertaining. To make history come alive, immersive shows on human evolution is an option. The presentation shall delve into the making of an immersive experience in a 360°digital panorama which is underway at the Science Exploration Hall of Science City, Kolkata, India.

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Museums and Digital Domain – The Emerging Power of Social Networking

To pursue their missions by sharing knowledge and inspiration with the public, it is imperative that museums go beyond their websites and emerge as hubs for ideas and publishing platforms. It is in this context, the power of social media such as Facebook, Twitter etc which have risen to phenomenal dimensions in recent years step in to take the mission of museums to scale greater peaks of glory.

Thousands of museums around the world already use these tools to connect with their audiences - real, potential, or virtual - but they are moving quite a ways away from the institutional models towards the personal, away from being a virtual space to being an actor in a virtual space.

The museums enter the social web with a privileged position. They will have to take on as part of their mission a new responsibility to use that position to craft their social interactions in ways that add meaning. In India, Birla Museum Pilani Rajasthan took a lead by entering social media in Dec 2012 and today has a powerful presence with over 3000 fans spread across the globe on its Facebook page.

Prof. B. R. NatarajanPresident – Vice ChancellorSangam University, Bhilwarae-mail- [email protected]

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Jayakrishnan TC.E.O, ASIMOV Robotics Pvt LtdDoor #3India Telecom Innovation HubKinfra High Tech Park, Kalamassery, Kochi-683503, KeralaPh:+91 484 2100433, Mob: +91 92494 94333e-mail- [email protected]

Human interactive robots in 21st century museums – Challenges and promises

Albeit human beings are nature’s ultimate engineering marvel, exponential growth in the eld of Robotics and AI will likely allow us to make signicant strides toward replicating ourselves within a decade. Progress in coming decade will be evolutionary. Social robotics has evolved with advanced interaction capabilities, In addition to mobility. Robots will be able to respond to vocal commands or gestures and move independently around a living space, watering plants, operating kitchen appliances, serving food, and feeding pets. In the years to come, the industry anticipates a huge demand for servant robots. It is getting changed since early ctional stories often depicting robots as something to be feared.

Museums can play a vital role in making this technology popular and acceptable among general public. The fear will then give way to excitement. And of course, robots can provide knowledge through fun. Apart from being a technological marvel, a robot at museum can be a visitor’s guide. To help this, it has to socially interactive and with advanced capabilities. The paper will talk about current scenario in general and challenges faced in the successful development of such a robot.

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Gulshan KharbandaCEO, Akriti Designs748 Phase-V, Udyog Vihar, Gurgaon – 122016 ( Haryana), India.Mobile : 9811147282e-mail- [email protected] ; [email protected];

Communication and Digital Technologies

Museums are going through a change because new communication technologies are evolving. Today, communication is not only fast but inclusive too. That one sided information provided by museums to visitors is becoming multi-sided as audience’s reactions and inter-reactions are available within no time. Museum’s authoritative role of an author is changing to editing and implementing the feedback received from audience, which also has available at its disposal a number of information and interaction portals at a click of a button. You oat an even half baked idea and you get multiple recipes to bake the cake – all you have to do is to edit the info as per your plan and use it. This has more relevance to museums and centres where thematic exhibits are created. Scope of museum’s research and planning team has enhanced as the visitor’s reaction, which in itself was a research-topic in museums, can be made available fast. This calls for changes in administrative functioning in a museum as a separate team or department might be required for such interactions.

Does it mean that this would affect the number of visitors visiting the physical walls of the museum building? In fact interactions in digital domain with general audience should create more interest amongst different people and should add to the number of visitors.

Also, the digital technologies available make the visitor’s visit to museums more interactive, entertaining and informative. Digital technology based programmes developed for interaction with exhibits make them `captive’ and `easy’ to interact with. Some of the exhibits/ galleries developed by us incorporate `audio-synchronized animation and working’ technologies. Somewhere stand-alone exhibits tell their own story synchronized with electronic/ mechanical animation and somewhere visitors move from such exhibits to exhibits using digital Light & sound technology controlled by a computer and digital interfaces.

A few clippings showing samples of such technologies used to interpret exhibits will be shown in this presentation.

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Ankit AgarwalB.E. Delhi College of Engineering.G 28/3, Main market, Rajouri Garden, Delhi- 110027e-mail- [email protected]: 9811799523

Museums and Digital Domain: Digital Exhibits

We the INNOVATI VIEW are a team of designers and developers working on digitalization in museum industry. This has a large application scale as in making exhibits of the museum more interesting and informative. These exhibits nd their application in museum of arts, history, science and many others. It help in delivering large and various kinds of data in an optimised way.

Interactive oors, displaying various habitats on the oor that changes when someone steps on it. Interactive mirror displaying shadow of the person in form of different gures like skeleton, muscular system and many others. Holographic case shows a items oating in air via projection system. Through these exhibits the visitors get to know about the information of the exhibits in a much interesting manner and thus making the experience long lasting on their minds. This not only attracts huge crowd towards the centres but also helps in fullling one of the aim that is educating the society.

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Keynote Address

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Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin HinzPresident of ICOMInternational Council of MuseumsOfce Address: 22 rue de Palestro, 75002 Paris, FranceHeadquarters: UNESCO House, 1 rue Miollis, 75732 Paris Cedex 15, France Tel.: + 33 1 4734 0500Fax: + 33 1 4306 7862e-mail- [email protected]

“Museums and Transformations in Post-Reunication of Germany”

In 2014 it is already 25 years since the Berlin Wall came down. The older people among us will remember that time, when we had the impression and public discourse that this event marked the “end of history”. For most of us it came unexpectedly, a peaceful revolution not just in Germany, but also in Eastern and south-eastern Europe. The Cold War came to an end, non-democratic systems collapsed and a new democratic future seemed to be possible for everyone. The future, the 21st century was to be different from the tragic 20th century, and almost everywhere we started with a huge amount of optimism. But after 25 years we had to learn that the world is still full of problems and conict, old conict still exists, new conict develops. It is our duty as representatives of cultural institutions to help people in a rapidly changing world - which has an impact on every individual - that the development of society on the one hand and culture on the other hand are not contradictory to each other. Culture should - in the long term - support the sustainable development of society and therefore needs a high degree of acceptance and inclusiveness in order to reach as many people as possible. Museums play an important role in that process.

ICOM’s theme for International Museum Day 2014, “Museum Collections make connections” represents our tasks perfectly. Museums are places of information, of learning, of reconciliation, of entertainment and forums for discussion about cultures and history.

But are we as museum directors, curators, university professors or ordinary staff of museums prepared to meet the needs of our time? Do our museums have the infrastructure, the knowledge and the capacity to reach our audience? Society in the 21st century is in a phase of transformation everywhere and museums have to deal with this. Ideally museums are frontrunners for social development of towns, regions and states on a global scale.

These are aims and wishes, but the reality of everyday work is much more complex and complicated as we know from our own experiences. It is a lot of work to be prepared for developing and managing the museum of the future. I would like to talk a bit about the situation in Germany. At the end of the war they were located in Germany’s various occupied zones or abroad, like in the Soviet Union, in Poland, in France and in other countries.

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‘Museums and Human Resource Development’

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Mark TaylorDirectorThe Museums Association, U.K.e-mail- [email protected]

Transforming people to transform museums

What makes a museum good or not is not just the collection or the building but the people who work there, paid or unpaid. To truly transform a museum and the service it offers to the people it serves (and the ones it doesn’t), museum have to invest time, thought, effort and, probably, money to recruit the right people, who have (or develop) the right skills, who work together as a team to deliver a relevant, sustainable, dynamic and effective museum or gallery.

If museums are to survive and adapt in the 21st century, what kind of people do we need, what experience should they have and how do we get the best out of them as we try and transform our museums? How do we attract the right people, what qualications do they need and how can we improve their professional development?

So, it not just curatorship we need, it is individuals from a range of professions, from accountants to PR to education, retail and marketing. And even the curators have to adapt, have to develop a greater range of competencies over and above simply academic knowledge of the collections.

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Supreo ChandaAssociate Professor Department of Museology, University of Calcutta 1 Reformatory Street (9th Floor)Kolkata 700 027 Tel. (91) (33) 2479 2861; extn. 385/ 360e-mail- [email protected]

Human Resources for Museums: Museology in India

Museums crave for development of human resources through exhibitions and programmes. To be able to be successful in the mission, museums need specially trained manpower. Museology is an academic discipline and practising profession, which endeavours to nd the theoretical basis of museum work in particular, heritage institutions in general, aiming at a further development and improvement of activities of museums and heritage institutions, not only on the basis of experience but rst and foremost on theory. India is one of the pioneering countries in the world, which institutionalised the professional training course in Museology into a much specialised academic discipline. Museology is a very potent tool not only to rene museum functions based on the theoretical analysis, but also for many broad-based applications. Museology demands interdisciplinary aptitudes and highly developed multi-tasking skills. Developments over a period of six-seven decades are directed to be more and more inclusive in nature; to include the entire gamut of the human heritage into the fold of a single institution, i.e., the museum, aiming to visually portray its development and achievements through the ages; changing the entire gamut of the philosophy and functioning of museums and Museology. The paper proposes to highlight the issues.

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Rajesh PurohitDirectorAllahabad MuseumAllahabad, Chandra Sekhar Azad ParkKamla Nehru Road Allahabad, Uttar PradeshPhone: 918004926571e-mail- [email protected]

Human Resource Development based on change management for the Employees of the General museums in India.

Museums have begun to realize that the complete visitor experience is the key to repeat attendance, successful fund raising, and building audience loyalty. This has been learned by successful experience researchers in the museum eld yet there is a still this knowledge for museums and other organizations which depend on visitor satisfaction for success has not been done in major museums in India except the NCSM. Is your museum worth visiting? How about the public convenience of your museum? Do the employees communicate politely? Is there someone who can interpret an art object in your museum? These practical matters may mean more to creating a loyal following than any exhibit or program the institution develops. In the presentation of my paper multiple examples, exercises, and resource links to achieve the target through three Models such as GROW, SMART and understanding the reality of a visitor experience through a mock exercises of a visitor’s journey .The old museum and its staff are yet to realize the changes and therefore to train them a leadership Training Programme on HR is a mandatory and therefore for the capacity building of the old staff one need to know the change management in Human Resource Development as the framework for helping employees develop their personal and organizational skills, knowledge, and abilities the orientation and practices are essential. Human Resource Development includes such opportunities as employee training, employee career development, performance management and development, coaching, mentoring, succession planning, key employee identication, tuition assistance, and organization development.

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Training of Museum Professionals in India –requirements and challenges

The article, ‘Training of Museum Professionals in India –requirements and challenges”, summarizes the history and background of Museology as a discipline in India, reviews the museology discourse in the context of the requirement of the museum profession and deliberates over the present and future challenges. The paper proposes to analyze course curriculum of Museology degree at different universities and institutions in India with reference to the present duties and changing functions of the museum professionals. The paper also throws light on the newer responsibilities, job proles and job positions required in the fast changing world of Indian museums. The paper explores different ways to enlarge the scope of the degree of Museology to serve the evolving role of museums for the Indian society.

Dr. Manvi Seth Head of the Department National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation & Museology, Delhi e-mail- [email protected]

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Prokash Chandra DasDirector General (Additional Secretary)Bangladesh National MuseumShahbag, Dhaka 1000Bangladeshcell: 88-02-01711587228Telephone: 88-02-8619303e-mail- [email protected]

New Age HRD for Museum

The role of the museum as a passive repository of history and knowledge has evolved over the centuries to its modern active and participatory role as educators of society and humanity and so it is crucial to rethink and reorganize and develop the human resources to better fulll new demands. Any worthwhile effort to improve any organization or institution must focus primarily on the employees both individually and collectively since the quality of an organization is as good the individual and also the collective quality of the people who make up the organization, the human resource of the institution.

The National Museum of Bangladesh has been growing into this new and diversied role and there have been positive changes, expansion and much restructuring of the human resources to meet the challenges of the 21st century and the museum proudly possesses an excellent setup. For visitors, local and international, various education programs are in place; the museum provides guided tours, workshops and active outreach programs. More recently, looking towards the future, the museum has undertaken a program for digitalization. Furthermore, as part of globalization, cooperation has increased and there are special international exhibitions.

For optimum functioning and best performance and service the museum has invested much in training and improving its human resources. There are intensive language, procurement, ofce management, computer training programs etc. Additionally, the organogram setup in 1983 is being revised and a new one is being created to meet the needs of the largest museum in Southeast Asia in the 21st century housing more than 0.1 million objects. 43 new posts have been proposed and several new branches have been established in different parts of the country. Two new sections have been introduced: ICT and archives. In the revised organogram the greatest proposed change is the addition of a two Additional Director General posts. These posts will be lled by experts in Museology and Finance and administration.

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Making Connections: New Age HRD through Networking and Negotiation of Cultural Shifts

Museums of yesteryears were places of pedagogy where domain experts used to create the collection and display experts were hired from outside for presenting the institution as a tourist attraction which also would impart some education. Later on, the economic pressure and the competition of market from different entertainment venders made it imperative that museums are also developed in a way so as to become more attractive, have much more value in thematic and specialized education, normally not covered under curriculum, and shaped into institutions which are economically viable through good nancial management and skillful marketing plans. This resulted into a new human resources scenario in museums and science centres. Hiring domain experts no longer ensured success of the organization. Since content is still the primary requirement, domain experts are mostly in need, but, they need to be trained to become multi-skilled managers who can not only create but also communicate, manage and market objects, services and ideas. Precisely, this is the new age HR challenge for the museums and science centres. The presentation will endeavour to address the relevant issues of grooming museum professionals in this age of transformation.

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S ChaudhuriDirectorCentral Research & Training LaboratoryNational Council of Science MuseumsPhone: (033) 23575692e-mail- [email protected]

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Munira Sultana (Ms)Deputy SecretaryMinistry of Cultural AffairsBangladesh Secretariat, DhakaPh: 880-2-9570668(Ofce)Ph: 880-2-01715120044(Cell)e-mail- [email protected]

Museums and Human Resources Development: A Case Study of Bangladesh National Museum (BNM) and a Archaeological site museum of Bangladesh

In response to the well advanced and changing role of the Bangladesh National Museum, there is a constant need for self-assessment and innovation. The museum has a dynamic public education department to serve visitors and arrange various national and international programs to instill patriotism and engender awareness about history and culture through creative competitions involving students of various levels. The department also has a strong outreach program for the school children, the general visitors, from home and abroad. BNM provides free guide lecturer service in the galleries. This has been a very successful endeavor and appreciated by the guests. However, as the volume of visitors has increased manifold, there is a need to address diversity among the guests and their different needs.

Broadly the guests can be distinguished as urban, rural guests and school students. Besides this, there are also international visitors, and state guests. The Education section is responsible for providing the guided tours and this is generalized to accommodate all guests but now there is need to have different approaches and lectures for the different types of guests. There is also a need for a digital brieng for visitors before entering the galleries. This, of course, also means that a new training is required so that guides can better serve guests. Another thing that may be considered here is the recruitment of students and young volunteers by the museum.

In Bangladesh there are seventeen number of site museum under the Department of Archaeology (DoA). There is a unique ethnological museum in Chittagong district. Besides this other sixteen site museum also well run by the appointed personnel by DoA. Those people who are the graduates of History, Archaeology, Anthropology, Sanskrit and Pali are serving the different museum. There is much trained guide. The department has arranges workshop with the local community to awareness building, involves the local administration to protection of the archaeological sites. The technical people are involves with the conservation of the sites as actual as possible. There is a need to establish a modern testing lab on Archaeology .That initiative will be much helpful for employment and as well as reducing unemployment of educated people.

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Prof. (Dr.) R. P. Banerjee, Director, EIILMe-mail- [email protected]

Human Resource Strategy for 21st century Museums--The Role of Intrinsic Qualities of Man in shaping Mind of Museum

Museums across the globe have been passing through a consistent process of transformation in its scope, reach, delivery, presentation, depiction and overall understanding. The boundaries of product display and progress have been extended beyond traditional jurisdiction of the meaning and understanding of the Museum with the advent of digital focus. The scope for the Museums becomes exible and actually broadened to improve many new areas which were previously considered as redundant and irrelevant.

With the changes of technology, the pattern of demand has transformed and gone beyond its time frame to embrace things which would be considered relevant decade or century ahead. The scope and relevance of manpower management in this Industry is going to transform a lot accordingly. MUSEUM: A PLACE OF DELIGHT AND ACCLAIM:

The issues of Product Transformation, Display Transformation, Logistics and other related things depend on the process, position of the outlook transformation of the people managing and conducting the thing. Therefore, HR deserves a transformed system in a new wave of Museums with renewed focus and coverage. AGENTS OF DELIGHTS:

The new era Museums would consider people as agents of delights both within the organization and outside.

• A specialist of Mind-Engineering.• An Architect of accumulating lovables.• A mad pursuant.• Prophetic glance and view.• A techno-eco synthesizer.• A penny master. • A unique consumer.

The new era Museum is going to be a temple of cultural delight. People working within the system needs to adapt and get transformed accordingly.

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Dr. Jarugumilli Kedareswari211, Saptagiri Apartments, Phase IV,6-1-189, Padmarao Nagar,HyderabadPin- 500 025.Andhra PradeshMobile: +91 9000944541e-mail- [email protected]

The Changing Dynamics of Museums and Capacity Building in India; Challenges & Opportunities

Human resource development in museums, especially in state, district and site museums is a major area of concern in India. To remain relevant, museums must now respond to the dynamics of changing circumstances and explore opportunities for human resource development and train new generations to become the museum leaders of the future.

The paper retraces the antecedents of the existing museums’ workforce while enumerating the challenges affecting its work culture. It examines the mission of the museums/galleries and throws light on the success of these institutions in making a systematic attempt to integrate the use of human resource with the wider long term missions/ business strategies of their respective institutions. The paper refers to the contributions of the government/ senior management/ trustees in terms of involvement and commitment for the development of human resource and training. The paper then highlights the role of the various museum studies programs, committees, associations, teaching Institutions and established museum professionals in developing and promoting the core manpower strength of museums and also recommends utilization of online resources to bring training to the door step of all institutions including far ung and rural areas. The paper compares the organizational patterns of some museums in India with some International museums in terms of professional areas of operation. Last but not the least, the paper throws light on the importance of conceptual domains- special skills, aptitudes, attitudes and knowledge which are specic to each professional area, citing some specic examples.

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‘Museums and Relevance’

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Dr. Saroj Ghose4A Suryadeep Apartment, 112G Salimpur Road, Kolkata 700031, IndiaMob: 919830778979e-mail- [email protected]

Inclusive Museums of Tomorrow

The theme of this session underscores three key phrases, the rst two appearing in the session title, 'museums and relevance' and 'culture as a tool', and the third phrase' ínclusive museums' appearing in the topic of my presentation. I propose to take them up in the reverse order.

In my interpretation, inclusive museums will involve new forms and techniques on public engagement bringing in interactive participation of diverse groups of visitors, none excluded. This inclusivity can be achieved by using culture as a 'tool kit' of habits, skills and styles that explain culture's causal role in shaping action inmuseums so as to make such institutions 'generators of culture' as projected in the theme of ICOM's general conference of 1989.

Relevance of museums to the life and perception of the people and use of culture as a tool jointly help in making museums inclusive. Museums can be made relevant by directly addressing the subjects of topical interest, be those the latest events of space exploration, deep insight into the mysteries of life, debatable issues connected to environment, latest nds of art & sculpture, and even controversial issues demanding public engagement.

In my presentation I shall suggest how special exhibits and activities could be designed and organised around the 'core' interest of the museum, by utilising the tremendous advance of digital technology and meticulously developed information bank.

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Piyasi Bharasa Assistant Professor, Department of Museology, University of Calcutta. 2/97, Sucheta Nagar, Nandi Bagan, P.O. – Haltu, Kolkata- 700078. e-mail- [email protected] Phone: 09433588813( M)

Engaging the Underprivileged Children with the Museum: Making a Difference in the Quest of Learning

It is an uncomfortable truth that the underprivileged children are yet negligible in numbers to visit museums. Till date museums have conned themselves in organizing a few children’s programmes such as sit and draw and quiz competitions, art-workshops and lm shows etc. without actually understanding the needs of the underprivileged children. It is seen that these children face poverty and deprivation in their life which alienates them from participating in most of the museum activities. Having a strong societal role to play museums cannot ignore the responsibility towards engaging these children.

Museums must take specic actions to reach out to marginalised groups and individuals. There is a range of actions museums might need to take in order to ensure active participation of these underprivileged children. Understanding the needs of these children, making museums free for them, building relationships, working in partnership with the social agencies and formulating learning programmes according to the needs of these children are some of the suggested steps to be taken.

This article focuses on the issues of poverty and deprivation, and look at how museums might work to overcome the barriers to underprivileged children that these issues place in the path to their active participation.

Key Words: engaging, underprivileged children, museum, conventional way, new thoughts, case studies.

*Assistant Professor, Department of Museology, University of Calcutta and Former Education Ofcer, Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata

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Renu JatharAssistant Curator, ArtChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya159/61, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Mumbai, 400 023Tel.no: 022 2284 4484, 2284 4519e-mail- [email protected]

Museums and Relevance

The time has passed when museums were mere repositories of cultural heritage and that function alone dened their role! A museum today has to be a living institution, a responsible and contributing member of its society.

All of the above thoughts have contributed to the metamorphosis that the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya has undergone in the last few years. Since it opened in 1922, the CSMVS has been a popular and well known museum. However now it has gained global recognition as a ‘happening’ museum, one that reaches out to all its audiences, is connected internationally and has identied and accepted its social responsibility and works towards its fulllment.

Since 2007 the CSMVS has embarked on a policy of accessibility to audiences and likeminded institutions the world over. We have worked towards creating an infrastructure that will enable collaborations with other institutions resulting in international exhibitions coming to the CSMVS. The Permanent galleries of the museum have been redesigned with a distinctly visitor friendly approach. The education department has been empowered to create opportunities of informal learning that are available to all, irrespective of barriers of language, class, ability, etc. We recognize that Museums by their very nature have a social responsibility to enrich the social, cultural and economic progress of its varied communities.

An enriching experience and an everlasting memory is what the CSMVS strives to give each visitor.

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Connecting Schools and Communities with Museums

In the 21st Century, museums can open up vital new spaces in society where a wider variety of visitors and public sectors can engage with their resources and practices. . Museums can serve as catalysts to integrate traditionally separated sectors such as schools and their communities for making learning more applicable to real world situations. This has particular importance for grounding new national standards in curriculum and testing with more relevant education in schools. New learning techniques are being developed in museums that advance educational practices in schools as well. For instance, as sites of informal learning, museums provide teachers and students with ‘free choice’ learning opportunities using inquiry, investigation, and interpretation through its collections. In natural history museums, students can experience an integrated approach to learning across collections in science, culture, and the arts. At the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City, the Education Department develops programs that link its collections with school curriculum and learning in local communities. AMNH also provides an educational model of learning based on its own approach of expedition, exploration, and exhibition. Case studies of the educational programs at AMNH will demonstrate how museums can connect schools and communities for educational purposes and enhancement.

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Prof. Roberta Altman, Graduate FacultyBank Street College of Education &The American Museum of Natural History79th and Central Park WestNew York, N.Y.10024 USAe-mail- [email protected]: +1-917-455-1082

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Pratik Ghosh68/1, Deshbandhu Road,P.o.: New BarrackporeKolkata – 700 131Phone: 033-2527-5705, Res. (0) 9830221034 (mob.)e-mail- [email protected]

Museum and Community Involvement: A Case Study of Community Engagement Initiatives at Gandhi Memorial Museum, Barrackpore

Community engagement is now a major transformative force in the museum eld. Museums today are challenged to become more active citizens, involved in addressing the social issues faced by our communities. Biographical Museums have a distinct role to develop the right attitude and approach to life, living and relations apart from the inspiration. At present, such museums are neither mausoleums, nor an attempt to ancestor worship or meant to show only our gratitude to the personalities who recidivated the greatness of our country. So this type of museums would perhaps be one of the most effective media, since it has an integrated role and appeals to both our emotions and intellects and brings the necessary condence which is a great causality today everywhere and at every place. The present article focuses on the initiatives presently pursued by the Gandhi Memorial Museum, Barrackpore, for creating community engagement.

Key Words: Community Engagement, Biographical Museum

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Dr. Tilak BagchiAssistant KeeperAnthropological Survey of IndiaWestern Regional CentreNear Central School No.1Pratap Nagar, Udaipur- 313001Phone No.0294-2490635/2491775(O), Mob. 09610594060e-mail- [email protected]

Community Participation in the Anthropolgical Museums

In pre-indepenent colonial period antropology or ethnography was almost sysnonimus with the study of mannes, customs or more specically other culture. Accordingly antropologcial musems were developed under the initiativness of learend societies, natives, rulers, civil socities, elits and realy by the government . The museums were by and large developed by display of ethnographic objects and other materials. The direct community participation in the development of antropological museums were almost neglegabile in those days except collection of ethonogrphic objects from the community people or eld.

Goverment (both central, state and semi govt autonomus organizations) took up the major tasks in the development of antropological museums in India during post independence period. As a result several antropolgical and enthnographic mueums were set up by the antropolgical survey of India Zonal Cutural centres, Indira Gandhi Rastriya Manav Sangralaya, museums of national importance including national museums, Tribal research institutes, Antropology or tribal/studies department of varoius colleges and universities and some of the praviate museums. In most of such museums display is carried out with the help of ethonogrphic objects accumilated in the musuems through the process of eld collection , purchase , gift and so on . Besides dioramas models interative display system chart diagrams ,write ups audio visual mutimedia aids were also display in many museums to make the museums more attractive

However some of the musuems diplay object both in indoor and in open air. The objects inculde huts and habitat, art and carft objects prepared by the community people itself. For this purpose musum authority invited community poeople in the museum along with there traditional raw material during some work shop or during setting up of some gallery or exhibits. They also often maitain those exhibits with the help of time tested traditional Knowledge and wisdom. Communituy particiapation thus play a pivotal role in development of antropological museum.

Under the above back drop in the present paper a modest attempt has been made to discuss relevance of community participation in the development of antropolgcial museums. In the present paper case studies would be drawanmainly from Zonal antropolgical museum and Gol Museum run by the Antropological Survey of India, Western Regional Centre Udaipur.

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Nilanjan KhatuaAssistant KeeperAnthropological Survey of India, Mysore e-mail- [email protected]

Relevance of Anthropological Museum in the Age of Globalization

We Indians have always taken pride in our heritage and culture. Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations. Our cultural (tangible and intangible) and natural heritages are both irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration. Culture is the non-biological behaviour of human being i.e., beliefs, morals, laws, customs, knowledge, art and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. Culture are learned, rather than inherited biologically. Art, like any aspects of culture, reects the cultural values and concern/history of a people.

The main job of anthropological museums is to interact with masses and educate the society at large by disseminating the knowledge of biological and cultural aspects of mankind from prehistoric era to contemporary times. By and large all anthropological museums have a rich collection of ethnographic objects collected from different ethnic groups especially vulnerable communities. Thus, museums are playing more active roles in the regeneration and promotion of the cultural traditions and social histories of local communities, especially the ‘populations at risk’ who are undergoing rapid social change. Towards conserving indigenous culture and their tangible and intangible heritage, anthropological museum plays a vital role. Again, the preservation of tribal culture is essential, as tribal people have been losing their cultural identity and traditional life as they are exposed to the new forces of industrialization as well as globalization.

Anthropological museum occupies a very important place in democracy. It is run by the people, it stands for the people and it is an institution of the people. Man’s right to knowledge and free use thereof is a key to the success of democracy. Museum, being an agent of education promotes knowledge through its exhibits. To ‘experience’ rather than abstract ‘understanding’` the Indian culture one should make a visit to museums in general and anthropological museums in particular. Anthropological museums through its exhibits can play a vital role towards empowering the community people highlighting their potentialities in preservation of medicinal plants, water harvesting mechanism, knowledge of traditional architecture, expertise in art and crafts and conservation of forest in the form of sacred grooves, other traditional knowledge, prevalent among the various communities.

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Dr Sudakshina MukherjeeCo-ordinatorRabindra Bharati University3 Satyen Dutta Road Kolkata-700029Mobile Number: 9830504065e-mail- [email protected]

Museums and its relevance to community development in West Bengal

Museums provide visual enjoyment, boost up moral support and develop the academic and creative pursuits of individuals. They are the mirrors of past culture and tradition.

There are four basic instruments of education namely the spoken word ,the written word, the visible world, and the audio-visual world which are used by museums for informal education. Museum objects are generally passive by nature, they can be made active and dynamic by proper communication and interpretation using the instruments of education. Museums organize various in-house and out reach programmes and activities to reach out to people in the vicinity as well as in remote areas.

Communities residing in interior parts of villages are deprived of the basic facilities of education both formal as well as informal. They need to develop a modern concept by developing innovative strategies to change the way people share and perceive cultural experience, which grows inherently rather than being imposed from outside.

West Bengal does not have any particular community museum. Hence, a museum has to be created for development and improvement of that community. The museum has to collect all objects related to the community which may be displayed to create awareness about their culture as well as tangible and intangible heritage. This concept of community museum will involve participation from the local community to carry out its activities.

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Shilpi Roy16/4 Kenaram Ganguly Road, BarishaKolkata-700008.Mobile No: +919163681708e-mail- [email protected]

Cyber museology: A proactive approach for safeguarding Community heritage

Community Heritage is broadly dened in terms of the social practices, aesthetic traditions, and forms of knowledge carried within cultural communities. Due to the rapid social changes taking place around the world, however, a signicant part of this rich heritage is on the verge of extinction under the pressure of standardization of practice and content. Museums, their missions, their civic, social responsibilities, and their modes of engagement with communities are in a constant process of transformation in response to such important world-wide issues to conserve intangible cultural heritage and hand it down to future generations. In the beginning museums started to use computer to provide access to collection information for better functioning. However since 1997, the Internet has changed dramatically the roles of museums and cultural institutions restaging the relationship between people and material objects as well as non-material aspects adhered within the context. The role of museums was no longer to collect and preserve objects but rather to involve people more and more in protection and dissemination of our cultural knowledge and heritage and to create interactive experiences between users and content, using advanced museum communication techniques. This has given birth to what some refer to as cyber museology -an introductory exposition of museological activities on the Internet. This paper emphasizes the scope of cyber museology which can materially assist in the efcient dissemination of our rich community heritage.

Keywords: Community Heritage, Cyber museology, museum communication techniques.

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Dr Martin Bellamy Research & Curatorial Manager Centre for Collections Research Glasgow Museums Resource Centre 200 Woodhead Road Glasgow, G53 7NN 0141 276 9333e-mail- [email protected]

What Difference can Museums Make?

In the mid 19th century Glasgow had become a large industrial complex, but industry was not all that was required to become a city of the rst order. Museums and culture were seen as an essential part of the city’s international reputation and for the education of the workers. Massive political and economic investment created a museum service adequate for the city’s aspirations. A century later Glasgow was in decline and industrial collapse created a city in crisis. Museums and culture were seen as the key driving force in its transformation from post-industrial desolation into a city of culture. As well was making changes at a macro-economic level Glasgow’s museums have also made a signicant difference to individuals and communities within the city. This paper explores the role of museums in the transformation of the city and examines the ways in which they have made a difference to Glasgow’s image, identity, economy and society. It looks at the current thinking behind the provision of a museum service and speculates on where it may go in future. Using Glasgow as a case study it is possible to draw parallels with other towns and cities around the world and offer suggestions on how the Glasgow model might be adopted or adapted.

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Ananya Bhattacharya, Directorbanglanatak dot com58/114 Prince Anwar Shah RoadKolkata 700045e-mail- [email protected]

Living Museums of Bengal

Museums have made a transition from collections of royalty and aristocrats to living spaces playing a role in strengthening civil society and community development. Community museums are emerging as platform for self exploration, heritage/art education and most importantly creation of social identity. The Art for Life (AFL) initiative of banglanatak dot com aims at fostering an alternative pathway for development using traditional cultural skills as means for improving people’s livelihoods and empowering local communities. banglanatak dot com has collaborated with artist communities in rural Bengal to develop community owned and managed Folk Art Centres. Built in spaces donated by the community, the centres are giving the communities a chance to explore their history and culture in an interesting way. They are providing the traditional practitioners opportunity to engage visitors in cultural activities. Visitors not only experience culture but the process also safeguards heritage. Case studies of two villages namely Naya – village of Patuas or the scroll painters of Bengal and Gorbhanga – village of Fakiri singers will be presented. Annual village festivals being held in these two villages since 2011 have been a key tool of promoting the Folk Art Centres. There is now year round ow of visitors. At Naya, for example, the visitors learn about making natural colour from owers, leaves, bark and seeds. They learn about mythology and use of folk art for social communication. As the artist and audience interact in an aesthetic environment, the former gets to know their listeners and are encouraged to transform their passion into a livelihood skill.

The process has resulted in alleviation of abject poverty with average monthly income increasing from Rs. 500 in 2005 to an average of Rs. 4000 in 2013 as well as improved sanitation and living condition. Most importantly, change of status of the traditional practitioners from impoverished labourers to artists and new livelihood opportunity has motivated youth to learn the tradition.

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SK. Emdadul IslamDirectorBirla Industrial & Technological Museum19A, Gurusaday Road, Kolkata- 700019Ph- (033) 2290-6102 (telefax); (033) 6459-1409; 9674728368 (cell)e-mail- [email protected]; [email protected]

Science Museums: In search of relevance in the 21st century

The information-driven globalized society of 21st century is posing both new challenges and new opportunities to museums of all kinds. We are in an age when institutions and professions are being judged not merely for their ability to perform in chosen domains but increasingly more for the distinctive and utilitarian role they are playing in their respective societies. As a result, museums are revisiting their philosophies as well as their methods and practices in order to re-establish a role for themselves, which is in sync with the realities of their time and are in tune with their people’s aspirations.

For science museums world over, as science itself is in a constant state of transformation, there is always a compelling necessity to embrace change besides the other incumbencies for social relevance. Over the last couple of decades, Indian science museums and centres operating under the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) have effected signicant changes not only in terms of their operational philosophy and exhibitory, but also about how they are engaging their publics for a positive impact from museum visits and in nding a meaningful role for themselves in the society. The proposed presentation will provide a brief outline of some the new approaches and initiatives undertaken in NCSM science museums/centres in this direction.

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Dr. Rayaprolu Venkata RamanaAssistant Professor, Museology, The Maharaja University of Baroda e-mail- [email protected]

Museum: An Instrument of Change Two opinions about museums are – they can stay where they are and maintain status quo in their mission of collecting, preserving, and caring for the collections and quite possibly become irrelevant or they can connect with their surrounding communities, and possibly world communities depending on their mission, and address the many issues and choices that humans are faced with on a daily basis. The basic function of museum as a repository and guardian of cultural objects, remnants of history, natural specimens, scientic instruments need not to be ignored. It supports the basic trait of museum as an institution of non-formal education and research on heritage.

However, museums need to become part of the social fabric of the community. They need to become community assets, and they should strive to do so, through innovative efforts and initiatives by dealing in a host of issues such as health, hygiene, social and natural environment, crime, economic inequality, and political issues etc. There are health museums in Vadodara and Hyderabad, established during the erstwhile princely rule of these places and they continue to exist with an obscure presence. Since the time these museums came into existence the life styles of people have changed, the cities grew exponential, the literacy rates went up and so are the modes of access to information and entertainment. But none of the alternate media, methods and agencies that subsequently came into existence and are in rampant use; have the innate advantage and quality and virtue of museum – a place that allows access to information and possibly interaction, to learn about any topic at a time of choice and convenience to the seeker. Neither the need for information and awareness about a host of medical issues has become redundant to any class and category of people in any section of the society. Thus, there are museums of various themes and activities, all over the world; which began to play an important role to change the lives of the communities; in which they exist or whom they address.

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Ms. Amrita DeyUGC - SRFFlat No. C-103, Sunrise Estate, 14c-r. N. Chaudhuri Road, Kolkata - 700015 e-mail- [email protected]

Digitizing Sacred Groves: A Technological Approach in Preserving Aboriginal

Sacred groves are natural islands of climax vegetation traditionally been protected and looked after by the local communities intertwined with their socio-cultural and religious practices but seldom touched for any kind of its produce. Sacred groves possess a great heritage of diverse gene pool of many forest species having socio – religious attachment and possessing great medicinal values. Such centuries old tradition had descended from one generation to another orally and much of this information has not properly maintained. This calls for integrated application of information technology to collect, collate, analyze, model and disseminate data available on scared groves of India. It should be designed to handle curatorial, nomenclatural, geographical, bibliographical and ecological data, taking into account the great variety of needs of the biological community (taxonomists, curators, biogeographers, ecologists, ethnobiologists, etc.). Its purpose is to assist simply in the capture and updating of the data and it can be an excellent tool for any regional biodiversity planning. Thus virtual museum of sacred plants makes one curious to learn about the science and history of a plant as well as its traditional uses, both medicinal and religious, communicating divine gifts to man and nature. It's a great opportunity to get a more thorough understanding about plants that were, and still are, a vital part of the indigenous cultures of a region.

Keywords: Sacred Groves, Ethnobotanical Heritage, Digitization, Virtual Museum

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Azfar HusainResearch FellowDeptt. of Adult & Continuing Education and Extension,F/o Social Sciences,Jamia Millia Islamia,New Delhi - 110025Phone: 09990103443e-mail- [email protected]

Instrumentalism in Museum Learning

Museums in India ,as in many other countries in Europe, are today subject to a critical attitude that reects a growing political demand for greater accountability in term of visitor numbers, contribution to the tourism industry, visits from school groups and so on. Many museum professionals do not like this instrumentalism, and want to argue for the value of culture and museums in their own right. This critique is based on many inaccurate ideas about what museum, archives and heritage sites used to be.

Some background reections

All heritage institutions are engaged with collection preserving material and intangible traces of the past. these three fundamental functions of a museum or archive underwent development during the twentieth century, shaping the specialization of each of them in turn. Today nobody in the museum sector can seriously claim to be a master or expert in all three domains, although most may know something about each of them. Being instrumental is nothing new for a museum. But it is of course important to aware of what forces the heritage organizations are being used to support. One wants to believe that it is and will be possible for the heritage sector-with its wonderful museum to work as an effective, Valuable and respective tool for a value system base on humanistic thinking. The most effective way to are achieved the goal is to accept the requirement specication from stakeholder whether it’s come under the heading of key competences for lifelong learning or something else depending on where in the world the heritage organization is based.

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Puspa DasUGC-JRF4, Haltu Garden RoadP. O- HaltuP. S- GarfaKolkata-700078Phone - 033-2405-0131®, 9836814910(m)e-mail- [email protected]

Museum & Relevance : Community Engagement , Benets , Active Citizenship

At present, museums are important places where we see our rare collections of exhibits and museum also preserved, conserved, documented of these exhibits. But history of museums is very old and it belongs to the upper class Community. Today, museums are public institution. Nowadays, museums involve long term strategy for community development. They build community ownership, participation, relationship and support for our museums. Identies the museum services are relevant more or less. Museum always focuses on developing relationships and increasing partnerships and collaborations with a variety of community groups. Very often we need to discuss about the local history of our earth and local community represent the local history, culture & their society and museums try to engage their activities and develop their societies. The objects of museums are that how can they serve the Communities needs, working with others interests. Day by day museums and community are depending on each others. If museums arrange the local history & their community to represent their gallery when public visit this museum and known their culture & heritage and fulll their memory a lots of memorable things. They exchanged theirs sharing thoughts and suggestion to museum to develop their upliftment. Museums identity, goals and priorities could be fundamentally transformed in response to community input and ideas substantially increasing reputation public service, value and standing in the community.

Key words: Museum history, Public Institution, Community Development and Ownership, Museum Services and Collaborations

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As an integral part of the outcomes of the activities of 2010 — The International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures, The International Year of Biodiversity, and The International Year of Youth: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding; and in response to the ICOM Cross Cultural Task Force recommendation for a set of guiding principles that are consistent with the 1998 Cultural Diversity Policy Framework of ICOM, and in continuing to address the wide range of issues with cross cultural dimensions through intercultural and intergenerational dialogue, and in developing inclusive approaches and guidelines as to how museums should endeavour to deal with cultural diversity and biodiversity, the 25th General Assembly of the International Council of Museums meeting on 12 November 2010 in Shanghai, China, adopted the following set of principles as the

ICOM Cultural Diversity Charter:

1. DIVERSITY: To recognise and afrm all forms of cultural diversity and biological diversity at local, regional and international levels, and to reect this diversity in all policies and programs of museums across the world.

2. PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY: To promote enabling and empowering frameworks for active inputs from all stakeholders, community groups, cultural institutions and ofcial agencies through appropriate processes of consultation, negotiation and participation, ensuring the ownership of the processes as the dening element.

3. COOPERATION AND COORDINATION: To cooperate and coordinate in sharing projects and enhancing professional exchanges so as to maximise resources and expertise at regional and global levels.

4. PEACE AND COMMUNITY BUILDING: To promote the sense of place and identity of diverse peoples through appreciating their multiple inheritances — natural and cultural, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable — and fostering a shared vision inspired by the spirit of reconciliation through intercultural and intergenerational dialogue.

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5. INNOVATION AND INSPIRATION: To foster creativity and to develop challenging approaches to stimulate inclusive heritage consciousness in culturally and linguistically diverse museum contexts.

6. CAPACITY BUILDING: To make directed and sustained endeavours to increase the operational capacity of museums to respond with vigour and insight to transformation and change in culturally and linguistically diverse societies.

7. PRODUCTIVE DIVERSITY: To maximise approaches that will encourage the diversication of resources to address and reconcile the competing demands of cultural diversity and biodiversity with economic imperatives.

8. STANDARD SETTING: To discuss and debate various UN and UNESCO international heritage law instruments, both soft law recommendations, charters and declarations and hard law conventions and treaties, providing strategic professional leadership, especially with reference to the cultural suite of international legal instruments.

9. SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE: To locate culture as the fourth pillar along with economic, social and environmental sustainability and to address the cultural and creative dimensions of climate change.

10. DIGITAL DOMAIN: To understand the differences between digitisation, digital access and digital heritage, to support digital access in all activities, and to recognise that digital access is not a substitute for return, restitution and repatriation.

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