Bhopal: Bhopal is widely known as the City of Lakes. But with its string of museums, it can well be described as City of Museums too. The capital’s repositories of the past cover a vast canvas – ranging from those encapsulating the history of human civilisation to tribals to flora and fauna to newspapers to telephony and to even dolls. Needless to say, most of the objects displayed in these institutions are irreplaceable and cannot be valued in monetary terms.
Some major museums in the city include the nationally-acclaimed Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Tirbal Museum, State Archaeological Museum, National Archives, Bharat Bhawan, Regional Museum of Natural History, Birla Museum, Sapre Sangrahalaya, Dr Shankardayal Sharma Swatantra Sangram Sangrahalaya, Dushyant Kumar Smarak Pandulipi Sangrahalaya, Remember Bhopal Sangrahalaya, Telecom Sangrahalaya and Aakar Gudiya Ghar Sangrahalaya. On the occasion of International Museum Day, based on the theme “Museums and Contested Histories: Saying the Unspeakable in Museums”, Free Press had a dekko at some of the prominent museum of the city.
