From Fields to Folk: A Journey through Rural Heritage
Date: 22 - 29 November 2024 (closed on Monday, 25 November 2024)
Timing: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Venue: Indian Museum, Floor 1, Temporary Exhibition Space
KCC in collaboration with Indian Museum and Museum Association of West Bengal is thrilled to celebrate World Heritage Week with an exhibition-cum-seminar on rural heritage during AMI Arts Festival 2024.
In response to the growing global interest in rural heritage and recognizing India's vast and living trove of rural traditions, this event seeks to explore rural heritage as a dynamic and collaborative strategy for its preservation. The theme "From Fields to Folk: A Journey through Rural Heritage" aims to explore, celebrate, and preserve this invaluable heritage. The event will highlight the potential of linking the preservation of rural heritage with sustainable economic development, with a particular focus on supporting rural museums, urban museums with rural collections, and individuals possessing rural heritage objects in the curation, conservation, sustainability, and management of their cultural assets.
With displays of traditional art, craft, music and dance, photographic explorations, and panel discussions featuring artists, museologists, and academics from various museums of West Bengal and Sheikh Noor-ud din Noorani Museum of Heritage under University of Jammu, From Fields to Folk will harnessing the collaborative potential of rural museums in recognizing and protecting rural heritage.
The exhibition and seminar are free and open to all; however, standard Indian Museum entry fees apply.