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Indian Museum in Kolkata gets bomb threat over email; search underway
January 05, 2024 4:38 pm
The area in front of the Indian Museum in Kolkata has been cordoned off. All tourists and visitors are being turned away, while pedestrians are being asked to leave the sidewalk.
India@75, Looking at 100: Imagine the ideal museum
June 28, 2023 9:53 am
I would conceive it as a playground, with a research institution attached to create a knowledge bank of art and culture, which can be relayed in many registers
Express View on Parliament Museum row: It’s time to reimagine the Indian museum
April 19, 2023 10:40 pm
The museum calls for a curatorial imagination that can capture the vibrant spirit of Indian democracy and transmit it to its visitors. The current fracas over the upgrade is an opportunity to rescue it from being turned into a morgue of banal claims and context-free information
International Museum Day 2022: Some bizarre museums from around the world
May 18, 2022 5:08 pm
There are museums that are outright bizarre, and it is this oddity that interests people from different corners of the world
How can museums stay relevant? Museum man Vinod Daniel has answers
December 22, 2019 8:03 am
Daniel, chairman of the board for AusHeritage, has worked closely on museum projects pan-India, including the Madras Museum, the Victoria Memorial in Kolkata, and the Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum in Delhi.
Pune’s Cycles Museum: Ride into the past on two wheels
June 04, 2019 12:36 pm
The collection also includes bicycle accessories such as gears, seats, dynamos, air pumps, lamps, etc., that Pendse would collect from his travels and visits to antique stores around the world. There is even a cycle shop, inspired from the early 1950s.
Ancient Yaksha statue’s foot found damaged
February 26, 2015 12:19 am
When contacted, Ashok Nath Tripathy, the museum’s media officer, claimed, “It is not damage. It was done in the course of a chemical process.
Indian Museum director quits
January 21, 2015 3:00 am
A few months ago, Venugopal was questioned by the West Bengal CID on the disappearance of Upadhyay.
Indian Museum Board meets to fix responsibility for damage to Mauryan lion capital
November 05, 2014 2:46 pm
Priceless 2,200-yr-old artefact had allegedly broken into two in Dec 2013; Culture Ministry wants 7 museum officials punished.
The missing ‘whistleblower’ of Indian Museum
August 12, 2014 12:14 am
The Kolkata police, who are currently probing the disappearance, have questioned several employees of the museum, including director B Venugopal.
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Express Wanderlust: After months, Kolkata's Indian Museum reopens its doors for visitors
August 18, 2021 5:40 pm
As the Indian Museum in Kolkata reopens its gate for the public, let's have a look at its rich history and details.
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