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State artefacts to adorn national museum

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI APRIL 23. The famous 1,001-wicker lamp of the Chettikulangara Temple, Mavelikara, and a set of Panchavadyam instrument will embellish the galleries of the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) - the national museum of Mankind.

A replica of the lamp weighing 1,750 kg is being given finishing touches before being taken to the museum at Bhopal.

Musical instruments like `chenda', `mridangam'. etc., are some of the cultural signatures of the State that will form part of the upcoming Kerala Gramam.

The national museum has already acquired a `Naalukettu' built in traditional Kerala architecture style from Mavelikara, and a Chinese net from Fort Kochi.

It is the Thripunithura Hill Palace Museum-based State Institute of Archaeology, Art History, Conservation and Museology (SIAACM) that is facilitating the collection of Kerala cultural symbols for the national museum.

The Institute had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the IGRMS a few weeks ago to this effect.

The IGRMS is an autonomous organisation of the Department of Culture of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture that is involved in generating a new museum movement in India. The organisation is also working for promoting national integration and promoting research and training and inter-organisational networking of salvage and revitalisation of vanishing and valuable cultural tradition.

The joint venture programme is aimed at the projection of the life and culture of Kerala in the context of coastal cultures on national and international scene.

The Kerala Gramam will be complete with sacred groves, replicas of major temples, traditional Kerala houses and works of artisans.

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