An exhibition celebrating 100 years of Santiniketan, a town about 212 kms north of Kolkata where Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore set up a university, will be held at Kolkata’s iconic Belvedere House when it reopens to the public after a year-long renovation next month, said culture ministry officials familiar with the matter.
The event is part of the ministry of culture’s plans to overhaul the museums, and several such renovated structures will be open to the public in the coming months.
The project also includes an installation of avant-garde art [experimental, non-traditional art]at Victoria Memorial Hall in Kolkata, renovations of the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Delhi and its branches in Bengaluru and Mumbai.
Of the 25 galleries at the Victoria Memorial House, three have been renovated, and exhibitions will start there from next month, said the ministry officials.
In one of these galleries, paintings and art on shakti [goddess of strength and power], created over 200 years, will be displayed.
As part of the plan, the Centre wants to set up 100 new museums across the country.
Read more of this in a report by Amrita Madhukalya published in Hindustan Times... (Link given below)
