Nagpur: The renovated Anthropological Zonal Museum in Nagpur at Seminary Hills was on Friday inaugurated by the Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, Sangita Gairola, with KK Mishra, Director, Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata, presiding over the function.
The museum is an attempt to show case human origin, evolution, adaptation and bio-cultural diversity with special reference to Central Region of India and its large number of ethnic group and their rich cultural heritage.
The Zonal Anthropological Museum run by the Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India, has also put up a gallery depicting human evolution and variation through time and space.
It has a collection of about 2300 specimens from tribes and other communities inhabiting Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Goa, related to activities like hunting and gathering, fishing, agricultural operations, household articles, dress and ornaments, musical instruments, art, religion, folk painting, Palaeolithic tools, fossil casting and so on.
Some are ethnographic specimens belonging to Central India's tribal groups are the specialty of this museum, a release said.
The museum is an attempt to show case human origin, evolution, adaptation and bio-cultural diversity with special reference to Central Region of India and its large number of ethnic group and their rich cultural heritage.
The Zonal Anthropological Museum run by the Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India, has also put up a gallery depicting human evolution and variation through time and space.
Some are ethnographic specimens belonging to Central India's tribal groups are the specialty of this museum, a release said.
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