Bihar Museum

 Re-defining Museums

A day-trip to this amazing place in Patna

Some images

An art installation at one of the open spaces amidst the buildings

An empty gallery

A gallery with many visitors - 3,000 turn up each day on an average

This may be an island in the city - but one which is connected with its people 

A 'library' for researchers 

There was also a 'classroom' - a workshop on traditional Mithila painting in natural colours was underway

Staff kept the spaces clean 

These photos in these frames kept changing 

The museum has its share of surprises - and they work  

Like the museum at Allahabad this too has space devoted to the Bideshiyas or the Batoiyas 

Only this one was more interactive and had technology stamped all over 

What would happen to our history if Alexander Cunnigham and Huen Tsang were to suddenly disappear? Same that would happen to our lives if tea and coffee went missing?

I enjoyed trying my hand at the interactive installations in more than one section 

Two on Sher Shah Suri were my favourites - one talked of the Grand Trunk Road (Sadak e Azam) and the other of the Rupee

Arrangements in the open

Very welcoming - especially during Decembers

This is a museum with good food

The Madhubani thali - before it disappeared 

It is all about the state

The short film on the museum (and the state) was followed by clapping