Archieves and Museums
Learning outcome: Students will learn how to maintain documentary, visual and material remains of the past either in house or Institutions. It helps them to understand the importance and significance of such institutions to build the history of India.
UNIT I (Lecture Hours: 10)
I. Definition of Archives and allied terms like Manuscripts, Documents, Records, Library.
II. Physical forms of Archival Materials like Clay tablets, Stone inscriptions, Metal Plates, Palm leaves and Paper records, Photographs, Cartographic Records Film, Video tapes and other electronic records.
Assesment 1: 25 Marks ( 25 MCQ)
UNIT II (Lecture Hours: 10)
I. Types of Archives.
II. History of Archives.
III. History of Setting up of Archives in India with some specific example like National Archives, New Delhi and any regional example of the local archive.
Assesment 2: 25 Marks ( 25 MCQ)
UNIT III (Lecture Hours:12)
I. Definition of Museum.
II. Aims, Functions, History of Museum.
III. History of setting up Museum in India with special reference to Indian Museum, Calcutta, National Museum.
Assesment 3: 25 Marks ( 25 MCQ)
UNIT IV (Lecture Hours: 13)
I. Types of Museum and Emergence of New Museums and allied institutions.
II. Material Collection, Conservation, Preservation and their policies, ethics and procedure.
III. Museum and Society: Exhibitions, Public Relation.
Assesment 4: 25 Marks ( 25 MCQ)
Final Assessment: 100 Marks (100 MCQ) /1 Hour
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