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Sikta Singh
Ankita Shrivastava
- B. Arch Student School of Architecture, LNCTU, Bhopal Madhya Pradesh India
- Professor School of Architecture, LNCT University, Bhopal Madhya Pradesh India
Abstract
A museum is more than a collection of art, sculptures or treasures. Rather it is a repository of the history of extinct species and their cultures. “Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.” (Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence ,2008) Museums organise the world according to how we view it changing, such as from colonialism to modernism. The Indian Museum in Kolkata is the world’s biggest and oldest multidisciplinary museum, covering the Asia-Pacific region as well as the Indian subcontinent. This museum was established as early as 1814 as the seat of colonial power, and was planned throughout time as a mother-institution that would host a representative Indian collection. As a result, the museum has grown to just be the world’s largest centre of its sort, reflecting national heritage and pride, and is listed in the Constitution of the Republic of India as one of the country’s national infrastructural institutions.
Keywords: From colonialism, producing apparatus, mother-institution, pioneering National
[This article belongs to International Journal of Architectural Heritage(ijah)]
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International Journal of Architectural Heritage
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Received | January 21, 2022 |
| Accepted | February 28, 2022 |
| Published | January 28, 2023 |