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Craft Museum: Living tradition of Indian Handicraft
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.
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