Beyond Display: Why Museums Need Strong Policies to Protect What Matters Museums are not just buildings filled with artifacts—they are guardians of memory, identity, and continuity. They hold the tangible expressions of our shared past, from handcrafted textiles and ancient tools to rare manuscripts and ceremonial objects. But behind every well-lit gallery and carefully curated…
Monthly Archives: February 2018
Art and Culture as Rescue and Business
The kind of involvement it takes to create an art work at the level of mind and senses, makes the activity a form of meditation. The focus and spontaneity required not only keeps the mind free of negative thought process, but at the same time creates positive vibes of satisfaction, accomplishment and self worth. If…
Government Museums need more Government Care..
Museums are the reflection of any culture or city or a part of art/history. Tourists rarely miss a chance to visit any city’s museum(s) in their travel plans. But, museums are not taken seriously by their own caretaker government departments because they don’t seem to generate revenue. This viewpoint needs to be changed because they…
Securing the flaking-off pieces
There are many methods used to secure the falling of pieces right in the beginning , before we start with other treatment procedures of conservation. These methods are extremely helpful as they allow the conservators work with more confidence while removing the surface accumulations that are damaging as well as obscuring the art work and…
Heritage in smaller ordinary objects
CONSERVATION OF MUGHAL SARAI, DORAHA: Tile Work
Restoring memories at Sri Harmandar Saheb Ji
The beginnings of Art Conservation work at Sri Harmandar Saheb Ji… Much of the conservation work on the first floor was completed by mid 2014… After this, it took many months for the finishing and doing the added work of ground floor walls and some other areas too… Its a story that needs to be…
A little recording from photograph conservation project of 2014
When we are handling old photographs’ collection, we must understand the simpler as well as the very technical aspects perfectly before starting any minimum or maximum intervention. We also need to keep the preventive storage or display case ready before we finish the treatment.
Art and Objects that speak of Lives and Culture
