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Giving life to museums


Aug 17, 2010

As Chennai gears up to celebrate ‘Madras Day', the city's museums which collect, preserve, archive and display elements of our past seem to have a story to tell. Not one that talks of past glory, but one that points to decreasing interest levels.

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