Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Anthropology in the Indian museums/Sabita Ranjan Sarkar. 2. Importance of ethnographic museum/Atul Chandra Bhowmick. 3. Some thoughts on the problems of arrangement of anthropological specimen in museums/Dilip K. Ray. 4. Documentation of ethnographic specimens: a new approach/Sabita Ranjan Sarkar. 5. Anthropo-museological perspective of cultural heritage: an overview/Amit Soni and Lok Nath Soni. 6. Scientific conservation for cultural heritage -- the utmost importance of 21 century/R.K. Mukhopadhyay.