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Besides
the Institute also run short term courses in the History of Art
stream for general public. The courses are:
1. Art Appreciation Course (Enqlish)
2. India Art & Culture Course (English)
3. Bhartiya Kala Nidhi (Hindi)
So far in all the three courses a total of 3500 students participated
and obtained the certificates.
Short -Term-Courses :
The short term courses are unique educational activity of the Institute.
These courses are a kind of training imparted to the general visitors
so as to make them aware about the art heritage and appreciate them
in proper perspective. These courses are initially started at the
National Gallery of Modern Art in 1983. In 1994 the courses were
remodeled and started at the National Museum. Till the middle of
1999, 22 courses of 5 months duration were conducted, which benefited
several thousands students comma from different walks of life. There
were diplomats, diplomats' wives, foreigners, journaIists, company
executives, tour operators, tourist guides, college students, artist,
doctors, and other professionals, military personnels etc. have
got the opportunity to attend this course for the last 12 years.
In view of the popular demand the 5 months courses have been redesigned
and now offered in S capsules covering a particular period of history.
The academic contents of the following specific courses are as follows
:
lndia Art & Culture This course concentrate on the Indian
art in totality. It covers the Early Indian Art (from Indus to Gupta
period), The Medieval Indian Art (from Post Gupta to Mughal Period),
the Post Medieval Art Period, Modern Art and the Folk and Tribal
Art of Contemporary lndia. Lectures are delivered by select groups
of scholars twice a week i.e. Tuesday and Thursday in the morning
from 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p .m.
The Bhartiya Kala Nidhi course is the Hindi Version of the course:
India Art & Culture.
Art -Appreciation The Art Appreciation Course is similar
to the India Art and Culture course, except for the global input.
In addition to Early, Medival and Post Medivel Art, this course
also offers Western and European art - both modern and classical.
Chinese Art, Japanese Art and South East Asian Art. These courses
culminates in slide identification examination. This is to evaluate
the observation power of the students and their newly acquired knowledge.
Illustrated lectures are delivered by a select group of scholars
now twice a week i.e. on Tuesday and Thursday from 10.30 a.m. to
12.30 p.m. for the Indian Art and Culture and 5.30 p.m. to 7.30
p.m. for the Art Appreciation course. Bhartiya Kala Nidhi lectures
in Hindi are held on Wednesday and Friday at 10.30 a.m. for two
hours.
In-service-Training-Course : This is a new venture taken
up only in 1999. This is at a formative stage. The Inservice Training
course for the Museum Personnel has been structured in three stages.
In the first stage Dr. Grace Morley Memorial Seminar on the Training
of Museum Personnel was held in the month of May 1999. This was
for identification of the resource persons. At the second stage
the 'Trainers Training Programme' - a two days workshop was held
in July 1999 as a part of motivational programme for Museum Personnels
who would be groomed as a Trainers in the respective region. The
next stage is now set for actual training programme for museum personnel
at different level in a modular format.
In addition to the Training Programme, the National Museum Institute
is also conducting orientation programme for the School teachers
as well as museum camp. So far our orientation programme for a group
of teachers have been duly conducted in December 1999. Several seminars,
work-shops, symposums were held during 1998-99. The Museology Department
conducted a workshop on 'Work-sheet for High School student in collaboration
with INTACH. The Institute organised 10 Special Lecture series under
the foreign exhibition programme of the National Museum, besides
occasional lectures by scholars - Indian and foreign. |
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