Q] Imagine that you are a curator of a museum. You have to open the museum displays to the public in a week. For the artifacts to stand out, lighting plays an important role.
(a) How would you use light to make the artifacts stand out?
(b) Describe one area in real life, where light plays an important role to enhance aesthetics. (hint: Interior decoration/ambience of a room)
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Years of apathy and India’s absent museum culture have ensured that the museum fails to compete with its international counterparts.
New Delhi: The 69-year old National Museum in the heart of the national capital just concluded a rare two-month-long transcontinental exhibition, ‘India and the World: A History in Nine Stories’, which showcased some of the most spectacular objects from around the world.
However, apart from the magnificence of the exhibits – from the oldest hand-axe in the world to the iconic ‘Dancing Girl’ in Harappa – there was little else to be praised about the exhibition, which was curated in collaboration with the British Museum and the Mumbai-based Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya.
“Look around…there are no staff members, no guides to answer questions…only this inadequate audio tour,” said Kishan Rana, a former consul general in San Francisco who also served as a joint secretary on former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s staff. “Is this how museums hold world-class exhibitions?” he asked as he toured the exhibition with his grandson.
The tragedy of rare and splendid artefacts being showcased with inferior infrastructure is, however, the tragedy of the National Museum itself. Years of state apathy, bureaucratic sluggishness and the lack of a museum culture in India have ensured that the museum – home to over two lakh objects covering a time span of more than 5,000 years – fails to compete with its counterparts in the US, UK or even China.
“Obviously, the actual art work at the museum is world-class…But the building needs some renovation for it to actually stand out,” said Owen, an American national visiting the museum. “The lighting, the display – these things could be improved.”
Descriptions in braille for visually impaired visitors.