|English||Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya(IGRMS)|
Oral Traditions and Expressions
Social Practices, Rituals and Festive Events
Knowledge and Practices Concerning Nature and the Universe
Education and Training
The aims and objects of Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya are:
Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS)/ (National Museum of Mankind), an autonomous organization of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India is engaged to portray the story of mankind in time and space, conceived in the early 1970s, the IGRMS began its activities in 1977 by opening a nucleus office at New Delhi. The establishment was shifted to Bhopal in early 1979 on allotment of necessary land for developing the Museum. The main Museum of the IGRMS is being developed in a 200 acre campus allotted by the State Government of Madhaya Pradesh in front of the famous Bhopal lake. A Southern Regional Centre of IGRMS is functioning since 2001 at Mysore from a heritage building ‘Wellington House’ allotted by the Government of Karnataka.
The Sangrahalaya is involved in generating a new Museum movement in India, to demonstrate the simultaneous validity of human cultures and the plurality of alternatives for human articulation. The Sangrahalaya is also working for national integration, and promote research and training and inter-organizational networking for salvage and revitalisation of vanishing, but valuable cultural traditions. The innovative aspects of the organisation are its open air and indoor exhibitions, built with active involvement of traditional artisans and experts drawn from different community group and the Education, Outreach and Salvage activities for revitalization of vanishing but valuable cultural traditions.
Through its exhibitions and salvage activities, the IGRMS demonstrates the aesthetic qualities of India’s traditional life styles, and the continued relevance of the local knowledge and mores of its people to the modern society, and cautions the people against unprecedented destruction of ecology and environment, local values and customs.
The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal is predominantly an open air museum dedicated for the conservation, preservation and dissemination of the vanishing but valuable aspects of culture through its exhibitions, programmes and activities across the country including North-East. There are 10 open air exhibitions and 1 indoor museum with 12 thematic galleries. It organises its programmes and activities under three sub-schemes:
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|Address||Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Post Bag No.2, Shamla Hills, Bhopal-462013 (M.P.) India|