The Museum's Village Complex is a
remnant of a temporary exhibition on the theme of rural India, set
up in 1972. Spread over an area of about four acres, the village
complex comprises 15 Structures representing village dwellings,
courtyards and shrines from Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh,
Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Orissa
and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
All the huts, courtyards and shrines are built
in facsimile with regional construction material and by the
respective village masons, artisans, thatchers and carpenters. In
every hut and courtyard, items of day-to-day life are displayed.
Many a bare wall of the Museum has provided a
magnificent 'canvas' for visiting tribal and rural artists who have
done paintings on them either by confining to their own inherited
visual vocabulary or by introducing new creative experiments. The
Village Complex is closed from 1st July to 30th September, and live
crafts demonstration are held on reduced scale during this period) |
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