NAGPUR: With a view to celebrate World Heritage Week with new ideas, the central museum at Civil Lines has come up with novel initiatives this year to attract children.It will go on till November 25. Being organized by the epigraphy and pre-history departments of Archeological Survey of India, the schedule aims to bring educational activities to the fore by medium of workshops and demonstrations.
The World Heritage Week celibration kicked off with a monument cleaning campaign held at Nagardhan fort, where 120 children from the local Nandivardhan school participated in brooming the area inside and near the fort and disposing the plastics. A photo exhibition depicting the excavations carried at Nagardhan fort in Nagpur and Malli fort in Gondia was displayed by the archaeology department at the museum.
On Tuesday, the museum presented a photo exhibition on the Muslim inscriptions discovered by epigraphy department in Arabic, Persian and Urdu. It will also showcase important monuments of Vidarbha. It will continue for another day.
Also for the first time in Nagpur, a pre-historic tool making workshop has been set up at the museum for World Heritage Week. “Such workshop has only happened in Mumbai earlier, and we are one of the first museums to demonstrate the technique, degree and the force applied by stone age men while making the tools,” said curator Virag Sontakke, adding that two PhD students from Deccan College Pune have come for the workshop.
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Also on Wednesday, a workshop has been organized in order to educate visitors regarding ancient vessels and toys, both of which were made out of mud. “Visitors will get to see how they were made on a potter’s wheel, and it will be a hands-on activity for the children,” and he museum has started work for installing 190 CCTV cameras and solar panels, both of which will be inaugurate during the winter assembly.
