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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan volition inaugurate the AKG Memorial Museum acceptable up successful honour of seasoned communist person A.K. Gopalan astatine his birthplace, Peralassery successful Kannur territory successful Kerala, connected Tuesday (February 17, 2025).
Museum and Archaeology Minister Kadannappally Ramachandran volition preside implicit the function, portion Public Works and Tourism Minister P.A. Mohamed Riyas volition beryllium the main guest. MPs K. Sudhakaran, V. Sivadasan and P. Sandosh Kumar volition instrumentality part.
Near Anjarakandy river
The museum, established nether the Department of Museums and Zoos, has been constructed connected 3.3 acre of onshore acquired by the Revenue section astatine Peralassery Palliyath, adjoining the Anjarakandy river. The task was announced successful the 2018-19 State Budget.
For onshore acquisition from backstage individuals, the authorities spent implicit ₹12.08 crore. The civilian enactment connected the depository gathering was completed by the Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society. A full of implicit ₹6.54 crore was spent for construction.
The accumulation plan and humanities presumption astatine the depository were undertaken by the Kerala History Heritage Museum, Thiruvananthapuram. For this, method authorisation was granted for ₹4.83 crore.
Six galleries
The depository houses six galleries arranged implicit 2 floors. It chronicles AKG’s legendary struggles, parliamentary interventions, relation successful the state question and agitation against capitalist exploitation, presented done modern show panels. A mini theatre equipped with precocious facilities offers immersive presentations connected his struggles. The depository besides features life-size statues, miniatures, ocular recreations of historical movements, interviews with eminent personalities, documentation systems and administrative facilities. The depository is otherwise abled-friendly.
A connection has been submitted to the authorities with an estimation of ₹7 crore for landscaping the country up to the riverside, processing a plot and mounting up a children’s parkland successful beforehand of the museum.
The memorial is expected to service arsenic a large centre for students, past enthusiasts and the nationalist to summation a deeper knowing of AKG’s beingness and legacy.
