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Programming for the 2021 – 2022 fiscal year will be led by Charlotte-based art therapist Amy Seitlin.

Additional programming will be offered to Loving Touch Adult Day and Health and Gracious Living Adult Day and Health Center. Each program will consist of two parts, an in-person or virtual tour of the museum and a creative portion that will explore visual art as well as other interdisciplinary art forms including writing, dance, music, theater, yoga, meditation and more.

#MUSEUM OF MEMORIES FREE#

This program provides visitors the opportunity to explore modern art in a way that increases their self-esteem and nourishes their relationships with their care partners and peers. Four times throughout the year, programming will be offered free of charge and open to the public and program participants will receive a complimentary lifetime membership to the museum.

It is one of the oldest operational heritage buildings in the city and we want to protect it,” a senior museum department official said.Museum Memories is a program consisting of tours and creative activities specially designed for adults with early-stage dementia and their care partners. “We will be commencing work before March. Official sources with the department of museums said the state government has approved ₹30 crore for the restoration. It is the second heritage building to be restored after the National Art Gallery on the Government Museum premises. Now the 40-feet tall Indo-Saracenic style building houses more than 3,000 artefacts in four galleries including one on zoology. The building has 12 gigantic pillars in two halls. Detailing of Roman-style architecture is found on the facade of the building with unique tiles on its floors that cannot be found elsewhere in the museum. An elevated structure, the ground floor stands at a height of six feet above the ground. Spread over an area of about 20,000sqft, the Pantheon Building, is the oldest structure in the museum complex. It has one of the richest collections of antique pieces including an axe dating back to the Palaeolithic period discovered by Robert Bruce Foote, Amaravathi sculptures and bronze idols belonging to the Chola period,” he said. “They wanted to conserve the artefacts discovered during excavations and explorations in the erstwhile Madras Presidency.

While renovation work is likely to start before March, it will take at least three years to complete the project.Ĭ Santhalingam, former archaeology officer and secretary of Maduraibased Pandya Nadu Centre for Historical Research said the Government Museum established by the British at Egmore was the first formal museum in south India. The restoration will be an attempt to revive its elegance keeping its unique features intact.

So, the structure is likely to have been built before that period,” said an official.Īt present, cracks have appeared on the exterior walls of the red brick heritage structure and some parts are damaged. “The British took possession of the Pantheon Building in 1780. The building was used for hosting banquets and plays since the last decade of the 18th century before it was turned into a museum in 1854. The 240-year-old Pantheon building at Government Museum in Egmore, one of the oldest functional heritage structures in Chennai, is home to rare artefacts and will soon be renovated to ensure it stands strong as a reminder of the city’s history.Īccording to museum officials, the Pantheon building was purchased by the British from another person. Its halls have hosted balls, banquets and the who’s who of colonial Madras until it was chosen to be the first museum in south India in the mid-1800s.

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