Some might say that a city that’s not even a century old shouldn’t really have a museum, but we do. There isn’t much to show save for some mammoth fossils and random artifacts unearthed when the city foundations were being laid, but so what? The museum was closed the day I went for a walk and click but this statue caught my eye.
Some similar statutes are scattered through the atrium. This one in covered in river clay, a method used to clean relics of grime and city pollution without damaging the stone itself. The museum was designed by Le Corbusier, who planned the entire city back in the 1950s. One thing I am particularly proud of are the captions in Braille next to the pieces on display. Of all the museums I’ve visited in India, this is the only one to have this facility.
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Braille captions …awesome ! Most that I have been to don’t even have ramps for wheelchairs. I have been to Chandigarh twice , but missed this museum. Thank you for sharing this .
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Posted by thatmishmash | 09/06/2016, 6:01 PMI thought you had only crossed through the city….it isn’t a big museum, nor famous. I won’t be surprised if many Chandigarhians professed their ignorance of its existence. 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 09/06/2016, 7:04 PMNo no , I have stayed in the city twice before but I haven’t seen much. Next time , maybe.
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Posted by thatmishmash | 09/06/2016, 7:06 PMNext time, definitely. You’ll have a great tour guide, hopefully. 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 09/06/2016, 7:22 PMI hope there’s a next time 🙂
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Posted by thatmishmash | 09/06/2016, 7:24 PMCheers to that too.
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 09/06/2016, 7:28 PMCheers .
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Posted by thatmishmash | 09/06/2016, 7:30 PMNew towns and cities need museums – I reckon they help to anchor them in time (or am I talking nonsense?)
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Posted by Mick Canning | 04/06/2016, 8:04 PMI agree with you, but in a country where pretty much every town is about half a millennium old at least, Chandigarh remains the new kid on the block and Chandigarh “culture” is considered a joke. 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 04/06/2016, 9:45 PMI guess it’s on a hiding to nothing – s.people will start being nice to it in 500 year
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Posted by Mick Canning | 04/06/2016, 9:47 PMI hope! (If 1000 isn’t the “new” milestone by then! :D) Have you ever been in this neck of the woods in your travels through India?
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 04/06/2016, 9:49 PMNo, the closest I’ve been is probably Daramshala.
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Posted by Mick Canning | 04/06/2016, 9:54 PMSo you’ve probably taken a detour. 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 04/06/2016, 10:03 PMPossibly…
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Posted by Mick Canning | 04/06/2016, 10:05 PM