Showing posts with label delhi museums. Show all posts
Showing posts with label delhi museums. Show all posts

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Some interesting features of the Sanskriti Museum of Everyday Art Delhi

Sanskriti Museum of Everyday Art Delhi positioned on the outskirts of Delhi and is among landscaped, lush gardens. It is crafted to show a mixture of stunning crafted objects that are used in a person’s day to day life like mirrors, combs, toys, lamps and kitchen utensils. The special feature about the objects that are present here is that all the 20,000 objects created by well known artisans from different parts of the country. The museum is open all day except Monday from Tuesday to Sunday right from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. The objects preserved here are arranged in a lay down of fourteen groups. The arrangement of the group is done by an intention to depict the life cycle of human being that is lived in traditional India. With this toys are used to represent infancy, then objects for a baby and then with objects that are used in the adult life, leading to household duties and vocational phase. So anyone who is interested in knowing about the traditional life that was lived by an Indian man and the objects that were used by men as well as women who used to work in kitchen with objects like nut-crackers, chillums, hookahs and many more. So a place is just the right site to get and observe the Indian life without being to an actual village.

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Crafts Museum Delhi

Crafts Museum Delhi
Crafts Museum Delhi
Positioned on the Bhairon Street at Pragati Maidan, the popular Crafts Museum Delhi has been the most liked place to present a stimulating change from the hustle bustle of one of the most hectic city of the world. The museum is a house of wide collection of crafts from terracotta horses to handmade ornaments from diverse tribal regions of India and Wood carvings, images, pottery, toys and metal-ware crafting sculpturing in the mid of other things. Under the management of the Indian government and specialized administration of the ministry of textiles, the craft museum is beautifully designed by the famous architect Charles Correa, establishing an absolute imitation of the typical Indian villages.

Some facts about the Crafts Museum
The Crafts Museum Delhi was constructed in 1956 after independence when the nation felt the requirement to protect its prosperous but vanishing art and craft effort by initiation of projects to build up and show these gorgeous pieces of vocation. It was after this that the commanders shaped a podium like Crafts Museum, which reveals a compilation of craft work that was put mutually by the Indian craftsmen between the years 1950s to 1960s. Ever since after that the museum has developed progressively to its current size and region space and creates itself as a must to see place in Delhi not just for Indians but even foreign travelers.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Few Interesting Things About Delhi Metro Museum

Delhi Metro Museum
The first modern Metro Museum has been opened in Delhi to be installed on an operational Metro station. This Metro museum was served as a New Year gift to the Delhi residents and showcased the history, genesis and the entire journey of the DMRC, that is, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation till that date. Delhi Metro is the first contemporary public transportation system is successful in offering a reliable, fast, comfortable and safe means of transport in India’s capital which was till now characterized as unreliable operators and rickety vehicles.

The museum is a collection of historical exhibits and photographs, displayed panels, traces the origin of the Delhi Metro which has taken more than 32 years to arrive at the equipped stage right from the drawing boards to main milestones, problems concerning the choice of the technology like rail gauge, rolling stock (trains) and many more. The Museum also comprises of two touch screen PCs that occupy a person in the DMRC business film and animations telling the means channel boring machines and introduction of girders that were used in eminent construction job. Souvenirs like key-chains, Metro ties, pens, and books are also available for trade as a memorable token for visitors at the Metro Museum. The timings to view everything can be taken pleasure from 10 AM to 4 PM every day leaving Monday as the Museum would be not opened.