Museum Studies
Contents: 1. Army museums in India/Sunanda Srivastava. 2. Museum movement in Karnataka/C.B. Patil. 3. Museums of Kerala : a study of historical development/S.B. Darsana. 4. Site museums some issues/Alok Tripathi. 5. An introduction to the site museums and their future scope Nayan Ananda Chakraborty and Sangeeta Chakraborty. 6. Archeological site museums an appraisal/Sulekha Banerjee and Vinay Kumar. 7. Art museums of Hyderabad a brief study/V. Meena Kumari. 8. Jnana-Pravaha and its museum/Kamal Giri. 9. National archives museum/Ranjita Sahu. 10. Kalang Sangrahalaya Assam/R.D. Choudhury. 11. Karnataka Loka a museum at Kannada University Hampi/K.M. Suresh. 12. Museum of archaeology and ancient history at the M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara/Aprajita Sharma. 13. Dr. N.K. Sahu museum/P.K. Nayak. 14. Shri Dwarkadheesh Sanskrit Academy and Indological research Institute\'s Museum Dwarka-a case study/Prajnya Pratim Pradhan. 15. A less known museum at Kondapur/G. Thirumoorthy. 16. A unique collection in Ching tam Yokhat museum and research centre/L. Kunjeshwori. 17. Shri Sanjay Sharma museum and research institute/Rita Pratap. 18. Bhimtal museum, Nainital/Saumya Negi. 19. Peoples museum/N. Taher, Sriguru Bagi, Abhijit Ambekar and Rohini. 20. Need to establish regional open air museums showing historical phases of monuments/J. Manuel. 21. Museum the house for preservation of art and cultural heritage/L.N. Soni and Amit Soni. 22. Museum orientation/Mohit Srivastava. 23. Technological applications in museums-an overview/Indrani Bhattacharya. 24. Museums for all an enigma/Supreo Chanda. 25. Museum architecture in India and 21st century\'s demands/Rajesh Prasad. 26. Museum and corporate world study in interdependence/Usha Rani Tiwari and D.N. Tiwari. 27. Towards a friendlier museum/Enakshi Chattopadhyay Bhattacharjee. 28. Social accountability of museums towards children/Sudhakshina Mukherjee. 29. Ecomuseum its role towards the development of small territories/Anupama Bhatnagar. 30. The Kangra Bhagavata paintings in Bharat Kala Bhavan/Saroj Rani. 31. An unusual water vessel from the Islamic metal collection of the naprstek museum, prague/Dagmar Pospisiilova. 32. Six coin dies from Koch Bihar Palace museum/Shamoon Ahmad and D.N. Sinha. 33. Care of vintage cannons/R. Balasubramaniam. 34. The earliest museum publication in India/Shyamalkanti Chakravarti. 35. A new hope for Sunil/Sulekha Bhargava.
Museum Studies contains selected essays on museums. Thirty-five articles contributed by museologists and those researching in museums cover diverse types of museums located in almost all the states and spread across the length and breadths of India.
Papers presented in this volume cover - history of museums, museum orientation, technological applications, virtual and modern museums, museum processes, museum architecture, museum and corporate world, friendlier museum, social accountability of museum, ecomuseum, museum publication, etc. and also collections such as - paintings, terracotta, sculptures, copper plates, coins, textiles, excavated remains, pottery, beads, seals, masks, ethnological collections, ranging from prehistoric times to contemporary period.
With first hand information on variety of museums, from traditional to modern museums and with more than 180 illustrations this volume would be of interest not only to the professionals and students of museology, archaeologists, artist, architects, but also to students and even to common readers interested in art, culture, and education.
