Children belonging to Paniyan, Betta Kurumba and Kattunayakan tribal communities of the Nilgiris-Wayanad region visited the zonal anthropological museum here on the occasion of International Museum Day.
This year’s theme ‘Museums and Cultural Landscapes’ makes museums responsible for their landscapes, asking them to contribute knowledge and expertise and take an active role in their management and upkeep, said C.R. Sathyanarayanan, Deputy Director and Head of Office, Anthropological Survey of India, Southern Regional Centre, Mysuru.
The primary mission of museums is to oversee heritage, whether it be inside or outside their walls.
Their natural vocation is to expand their mission and implement their own activities in the open field of cultural landscape and heritage that surrounds them and for which they can assume varying degrees of responsibility, Dr. Satyanarayana said, in a release here.
Highlighting the link between museums and cultural heritage enhances the idea of museums as territorial centres involved in actively protecting the cultural landscape, he explained.
In this connection, the Southern Regional Centre of ASI observed the International Museum Day by bringing 60 tribal children from the residential school run by Nilgiris Wayanad Tribal Welfare Society in Ambalamoola, Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu to the Anthropological Museum at Bogadi here on Wednesday.
It made the tribal children perform their cultural programmes, and also exhibit their skills and talent in painting and drawing so that those can be showcased in the museum of the ASI.
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Mysuru, provided accommodation for the overnight stay of the tribal children. The children will visit the zoo and Mysuru Palace on Thursday, after which they will return to Nilgiris.
