Museums
A museum ( mew-ZEE-əm; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. The largest museums are located in major cities throughout the world, while thousands of local museums exist in smaller cities, towns, and rural areas. Museums have varying aims, ranging from serving researchers and specialists to serving the general public. The goal of serving researchers is increasingly shifting to serving the general public. …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 13 July 2023 English
The Linguistic Survey of India (LSI) is an ongoing project of the Government of India that aims to document and study how languages have changed in the country over the …
statues, drawings and paintings, etc., found in the museums of Madras, the sculpture of Tanjavur, Pattiswaram …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 14 April 2023 English
For decades after Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s passing, it was singers like shahir Dadu Salve who nurtured the anti-caste movement and took it to the remotest corners of Maharashtra. Today, on …
Foundation for the Arts under their Archives and Museums Programme in collaboration with People’s Archive …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 March 2023 English
A video project featuring oral testimonies of those caught in the vortex of the citizenship crisis in Assam shows the devastating effects on individual lives and histories
Foundation for the Arts under their Archives and Museums Programme, in collaboration with People’s Archive …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 February 2023 English
On the 40th anniversary of the horrific Nellie massacre, Rashida Begum recalls the day when thousands of Muslims of Bengal origin were killed in rural central Assam
Foundation for the Arts under their Archives and Museums Programme, in collaboration with People’s Archive …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 15 February 2023 English
Just like Mahatma Phule's student Mukta Salve challenged the caste system in 1885, Kadubai Kharat has raised her voice and ektari against oppression in our times – guided by Babasaheb's …
Foundation for the Arts under their Archives and Museums Programme in collaboration with People’s Archive …
Freer Gallery of Art · 2023
1965. Many objects from the Heeramaneck collection were either purchased or donated to American museums. Items from their collection may be found in The British Museum; the Cleveland Museum of Art; Los …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 9 June 2022 English
On his birth anniversary, a tribute to Shahir Atmaram Salve, whose fiery poetry shaped the Namantar movement in Marathwada in the 1970s-80s. His songs stir the struggle for Dalit rights …
Foundation for the Arts under their Archives and Museums Programme in collaboration with People’s Archive …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 14 April 2022 English
On Ambedkar Jayanti, Shahir Atmaram Salve’s poetry exhorts the listener to give up the old ways and follow the path shown by Babasaheb
Foundation for the Arts under their Archives and Museums Programme, in collaboration with People’s Archive …
LC: Library of Congress · 2022 English
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charges are such an entrenched revenue stream for museums. I thanked seventy-six people in the PhD thesis …
LC: Library of Congress · 2021 English
"On 6 April 2021, the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Mumbai, India and the School of Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel, hosted a virtual conference title 'Envisioning the Post-pandemic Metropolis: …
numerous cities, art broke out of traditional museums and galleries to hang between buildings and …
