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India has rich culture and tradition maintained since last five thousand years. The main way to pass on traditional knowledge was by means of “Shrutis and handicrafts”. Handicraft is a national treasure of our artisans knowledge.
First step in this direction was taken by Shrimati Kamla Devi Chatopadhaya who did survey & toured India, collected samples & establish a museum in 1952. In 1956 this museum was commercially established with an aim to showcase & promotes the work of native artisans. In 1972 it was shifted from Thapar house to Bhairon Road, Pragati Maidan. It has authentically counted huts which are beautifully decorated with folk art & exhibits include wood carvings, paintings, paper - Mache, embroidery & a full sized wooden haveli from Gujarat. The core collection of the crafts museum was actually put together to serve as reference material for the craftsmen who were increasingly losing touch with their own traditions in terms of materials, techniques, designs & aesthetics’ of their arts & crafts due to the sudden changes caused by modernization and industrialization. Here the craftsman feels free to confine to his tradition or to innovate in response to his new contemporary environment.
The large permanent collection of 20,000 items of folk and tribal arts, crafts and textile is housed in a concrete, but almost ‘invisible’ building. Charles Correa, the architect, had a challenge before him on the one hand to provide a pukka building for safe preservation and display of the rare art objects, but on the other, not to let the building be so imposing that it would belittle the humbler objects collected from village homes. The scale and appearance of the building had to be such that it would not attempt to upstage its ancient neighbor, the Purana Qila on the one side and the Village Complex of the museum on the other.
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