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Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum

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Kitchen Utensils

 In the gallery of the Kitchen utensils on the first floor amazing are big vessels for cooking food in large quantity normally served in festivals and marriage-parties. There are also big containers of liquid and those used for storing food grains. This gallery also exhibits the day-to-day used kitchen wares, with artistic touch as Vegetable-Cutters, Spice-Boxes and Utensils in different material : wood, metal, stone, hide, papiermache, terracotta. ceramin etc. The measures in wood, the Kiln belonging to 16 th Cent. and the Noodle Stands also attract the mind of the visitors.


Toys & Masks

 On the third floor space has been provided for special Exhibition in which attempt is made to exhibit sections which cannot be displayed in the permanent show. Presently there is a special exhibition on armours and Tulsi Vrindavans. For children there are toys and masks to educate and entertain.


Door Gallery

At the Exit  of the Museum there have been arranged the artistically decorated doors and windows of temples and the then existing houses from various parts of India.


Textile

In the gallery of Textile on the 2nd floor figure mainly the textiles from different parts of the country. While the paithanies from Paithan of Maharashtra with Jari-work and Embroidery impress upon the visitors the richness of style of garments of the olden times, the Rabari garments take him to the prominent folk style in Gujarat, Kutch and Kathiawad.


Library

A library with Books on Art, History and Conservation is also a must for the Museum which has one of its important tasks to understand and make known the culture tradition of the country in the light of the exhibits. The Museum has taken proper care to built up a collection on important books on Art, History, Architecture and so on.


Laboratory

A Museum in modern times is expected, if not much to collect, keeping in view the financial constrains, at least to preserve and present the variety of exhibits in its collection, in order to generate interest and curiosity about our past. The Museum has rightly equipped itself with a conservation Laboratory with modern most instruments and it is adopting up to date techniques to display the exhibits.


Programmes in Future

1) Special  Exhibition on Paithan Paintings.

2) To make Video Cassetts on Museum and arrange lectures with slide  show.

3) Five year programme for the Birth-day Centenary of Late Dr. D. G. Kelkar(10th Jan 1996 ) i.e. New Building Construction, Publication, raising Museum Funds, to arrange lectures and seminars etc.


Board Of Management

In the year 1975 the Museum was taken over by the education Dept. of the State Govt. for further development and expansion. A board of Management was appointed as per  the Agreement executed between Lt. Dr.Kelkar  and the State Govt. to take proper care of administration and growth of the Museum.


Location

The Museum has at present a collection of 20,000 objects divided into 40 sections , among which prominently figure the attractive Lamps, Paintings, Tambool objects, Musical Instruments, Wood - work and so on , housed in a three storey building located at 1377 and 1378,Shukrawar Peth in Pune. The important exhibits in the various sections have been displayed in the properly illuminated show-cases in the different galleries.

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