Students of History Department at Government College and employees of Government Museum, Kalaburagi, and others took part in a function to celebrate International Museum Day, here on Friday.
“Museums collect, preserve, archive and display elements of our past and have a story to tell. The collection displayed at the museums could do with more attention,” observed Manjula Chincholli, Department of Post Graduate Studies and Research in History, Gulbarga University.
Emphasising the need to involve students in museum and archaeology studies, Dr. Chincholli added that visiting museums should be a part of the curriculum for history students. The task to draw in more people is not managed by increasing the number of objects or artifacts, but by a regular communication between people and scholars and the museum, she added.
Sarvodaya Shivaputra, head of History Department, Government College Kalaburagi, said that museums must promote exhibitions that are topical and challenging.
“They must broaden their scope and not restrict themselves solely to objects and materials in their collections. Museums must show leadership in the promotion of the heritage of the nation.”
Later, S.S. Wani, convener for INTACH, took the students around the museum and explained the significance of the artefacts.
