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The Aksharam Museum (Museum of Letters) successful Kottayam is each acceptable to commence its adjacent signifier of expansion.
According to V.N. Vasavan, Minister for Cooperatives, the operation activities for the second, 3rd and 4th phases of the depository volition statesman connected Saturday (March 14, 2026). Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB) has sanctioned ₹16.18 crore for continued improvement work.
“The adjacent phases of the Aksharam Museum person been planned to beryllium built connected an country of 13,000 sq ft. The 2nd signifier volition see 8 galleries marking the evolutionary past of 35 large scripts crossed the world, including those of India, the past of Malayalam poetry, the past of prose lit and technological literature,” helium said.
Malayalam poetry
The Malayalam poesy assemblage volition diagnostic modern and post-modern poesy and works, starting from the people opus contented and encompassing Sangha literature, past Malayalam literature, Manipravalam lit and Venmani poetry, among others.
Another assemblage volition item the Malayalam prose literate tradition, tracing its roots from oral and people stories to aboriginal abbreviated stories, novels, drama, autobiographies and biographical literature. The last 2 galleries volition see technological lit and translation, featuring Malayalam grammar works, notable personalities, dictionaries, different linguistics books and the past of translation literature.
Key attractions
The museum, on with accumulation galleries, includes enactment corners, digitisation lab, audio-video studio, children’s park, extended archival collections, conservation unit, postulation of archetypal editions of books, and room complex.
Plans are nether mode to present short-term grooming programmes successful epigraphy, museology, archiving, conservation and printing technology.
The 10,000-square-foot aged India Press gathering volition beryllium renovated and transformed into an auditorium and concern centre. In the archetypal twelvemonth since its opening, arsenic galore arsenic 7,883 radical person visited the museum.
A taste tour, incorporating schoolhouse students into the missive tourism circuit, is being organised to link the humanities and practice sites of Kottayam. The Education section has designated the Aksharam Museum arsenic a recommended tract for acquisition visits arsenic portion of the curriculum. Students and researchers from assorted colleges successful Kerala person visited Aksharam Museum for internships and completed them with cleanable world standards.
