2017-05-25 Thu

Civilizations aren't remembered by their business people, Bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by their art. – Eli Broad.

Museums are repositories of artistic, tangible, cultural and intangible heritages of people. These collectibles provide a new outlook for education and national integration. The notion of creating Indian museum started from the museum movement in 1814 by Asiatic Society of Bengal. But only the nature of museum's collection explains its significance and explains which category it belongs to. So let's explore and understand few museums of India in the light of their treasure.

To explore the diversity of this museum India post has issued four commemorative stamps. They have not only tried to expand eons of tangible and intangible history but also tried to show it by various artistic expressions from this diverse yet united land.

The first 25p stamp of this series depicts the ‘Airavat' from the collection of Kachchh museum. Airavat is associated with Vedic Indra as his vahana (vehicle), he is also mentioned in Buddhist and Jain philosophy. The depictions of the White elephant with seven trunks mount on wheels from Jain temple in Gujarat.

The second 50p stamp depicts the wooden sculpture of ‘Kalpadruma' which was once a capital of a column at Besnagar, Vidisha district in M.P. This artefact represents a wise-fulfilling tree which is part of Indian museum collection.

The third 100p stamp depicts a gold Kushan coin from National Museum. The coin of this dynasty, particularly of Kanishka and Huvishka survived in remarkably large number. The obverse of this coin depicts King Kanishka with inscription. The reverse side depicts four-armed Lord Shiva with inscription ‘Oesho' (shiva).

The fourth and last of these museum treasure depicts a two jewellery arms on 200p stamp of Salar Jung museum. It is believed these both artefacts belongs o Mughal Emperor Jehangir and his consort Nur Jahan as the craftsmanship on these objects belongs to Mughal period.

Later on in the wake of new archaeologically discoveries the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act was passed. Due to this, a number of archaeological museum was established.

Today India is a home to more than 360 museums.

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