International Museum Day celebrations held

Minister Kadannappally Ramachandran inaugurates International Museum Day celebrations at the Museum Band Stand on Saturday.

Museums are testimonial to the experiences of an age and history, Minister for Museums, Archaeology, and Archives Kadannappally Ramachandran has said.

He was speaking after performing the State-level inauguration of International Museum Day celebrations at the Museum Band Stand here on Saturday.

The Minister called for recognising attempts to rewrite and overlook history. Accurate information about a place and time should be conveyed to the new generation, he said.

The theme of this year’s International Museum Day was ‘Museums for Education and Research.’ This message should be taken to the people for the celebrations to have full meaning, he said.

The government, the Minister said, stance was to ensure conservation and maintenance of museums. The modern concept of museums was one of a cultural institution telling a story. They were capable of bringing about intellectual transformation, the Minister said.

The Minister inaugurated a special exhibition of weights and measures, handicraft products, and rare metal oil lamps and a selfie point. V.K. Prasanth, MLA, presided. Culture Secretary Mini Antony, Museum and Zoo director S. Abu, and Kerala Museum executive director R. Chandran Pillai were present.

At a function organised by the Archives department at Central Archives, Fort, to mark the day, the Minister pointed out that the Archives department was the repository of a treasure trove, which included nearly a crore palm-leaf manuscripts.