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Pradeep Kumar

18/05/21 09:00 AM IST

International Museum Day 2021

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Culture Ministry organises panel discussions on the occasion of International Museum Day 2021

About the app
  • National Gallery of Modern Art launches Audio-Visual Guide App on the occasion.
  • The app is an audio-visual guide for exploring the modern art treasures on display across galleries of the Museum.
Museum Day
  • International Museum Day falls on 18 May every year.
  • The objective of International Museum Day ,as  declared by International Council of Museums(ICOM), is to raise awareness about the fact that, “Museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.”
The theme for International Museum Day 2021 is ‘The Future of Museums: Recover and Reimagine’.

About National Gallery of Modern Art 

  • Founded in 1954, as the premier museum of modern art of a newly independent nation, the National Gallery Modern Art, New Delhi, houses and showcases masterpieces of the changing art forms of modern India spanning more than one hundred and fifty years.
  • The museum continues to reaffirm its role as a repository of modern and contemporary visual, plastic and new media arts.
  • The museum has a seminal collection of more than 2000 artists.
  • The line-up includes artists of the of stature of Raja Ravi Verma, Abanindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil, Thomas
  • Daniell, and a few leading international artists. Some of the oldest works preserved at NGMA date back to 1857.
  • With 12,000 square meters of exhibition space, it is one of the world's largest modern art museums.
Source: PIB

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