Around 80 college students will intern at the Government Museum in Egmore during their summer holidays, in a bid to involve them in the functioning of museums across the State.
The students will also actively participate in the international museum day celebrations for the next six days.
“The students have been helping out at the Egmore Museum and have also been studying its various aspects such as archaeology, conservation, taxidermy as well as training as guides to show visitors around the galleries. They will also get to attend the workshops and lectures over the next few days,” said Kavitha Ramu, director of museums.
Workshops planned
The Museum Day celebrations will have talks and walks on the museum campus, exploring the various galleries and workshops on Kirigami or paper cutting, Origami, and traditional games. “We are working towards reaching out to school students as well and from the coming academic year, we have suggested to the School Education Department that all government and government aided schools can be encouraged to form heritage clubs. School students will also be encouraged to visit museums and we will also be introducing structured heritage trails focussed on 412 historical monuments across the state,” said K. Pandiarajan, Minister for Tamil official Language and Culture.
While galleries at the museum might hold rare artefacts, the grounds of the museum campus took the spotlight, thanks to a walk organised by the department on Saturday evening.
“There are several different species of trees here including ones which have medicinal properties and we want the public to be aware of the greenery here.,” said K.A. Murugavel, the Botany section curator of the museum.
