Relevance of Museum and Museology in Modern Society

Contents: Foreword. Acknowledgements. 1. Promotion as a marketing strategy for museums/Sunjay Jain. 2. Museum education for differently abled and underprivileged in India/Manvi Setha. 3. Changing paradigms of museums/Supriya Sinha. 4. Walking the words to history: a study of Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence/Anuradha Rathore. 5. Preservation of cultural heritage: a curatorial responsibility/N.R. Shah. 6. Role of Museum in epigraphical studies/Vibha Upadhyay. 7. Awareness of organic evolution through museums/D.K. Pandey and Tej Bahadur. 8. The significance of monuments and their preservation problem/Ratanlal Mishra. 9. Museum education in present scenario/Pankaj Sharma. 10. Relevance of the museum education in 21 century/Madhvendra Narayan. 11. Significance and application of the instrumental techniques (EXX, WDX and XRD) in the conservation of art objects/Abdul Lateef Usta. 12. Relevance of museum education for scholars in the modern society with special reference to, SRC Museum of Indology, Jaipur/Rita Pratap. 13. Museum education-relevance and potential/Neekee Chaturvedi. 14. Museum: society and police (Its relevance in Rajasthan)/Vikas Nautiyal. 15. Museum, society and culture/Srishti Singh. 16. Changing perspectives and role: museum in education/Veenu Pant. 17. Concept of an ideal museum in reference to Government Museums of Rajasthan/Ambika Dhaka. 18. Role of Museums in National development/Rajendra K. Sharma. 19. Paintings of India (12-19 century A.D.) National Museum, New Delhi, India/Pramila Poonia. 20. Documentation of legal records and its relevance in modern law making/Ananta Mathur. 21. The lost world today and importance of museums: a brief study of Shri Hardayal Museum, Sikar, Rajasthan/Ashish Vyas and Ritesh Vyas. 22. The sun images at Government Museum of Jhalawar/Anita Surana. 23. The Red Fort Barracks regaining their past glory/Divya Joshi. 5 Articles are in Hindi.

There has been significant development in the museum profession in India. In the field of museum training, India is one of the few countries in the world, which now have well organized University Departments of Museology. Centre for Museology and Conservation in Rajasthan University continues it efforts to promote Museological studies. One of the feature of the center’s activities, seminar was organized and participants from different parts of the country collected and discussed different aspects of the Museology in recent times.

The book contains articles written by the eminent scholars on Museology and conservation. A large number of articles represent cased studies of museums and give an in-depth insight in the problem faced, method adopted and the finally the result achieved. It has unveiled the different aspects of the Museology in modern times.