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Artefacts from the Government Museum successful Coimbatore, located astatine the Nehru Stadium commercialized complex, are acceptable to find a caller location astatine Semmozhi Poonga.
K.A. Murugavel, nodal serviceman for the relocation, who earlier served arsenic curator of the museum, said the depository is being moved to the newly-built Semmozhi Poonga arsenic it volition align with the park’s purpose. The existent gathering has nary scope for enlargement and has recorded debased footfall, with visitant numbers declining implicit the past 5 years. A hallway measuring astir 4,000 sq. ft. successful the park’s ticketing analyzable is allotted for the museum. “Work connected interiors, including show cases, pedestals, lighting and descriptive labels, volition statesman wrong a week,” helium added.
The territory museum, established successful 1990 by the Department of Museums, has moved locations 4 times since its inception and is functioning from its existent rented premises since May 2009.
“It is the lone multi-disciplinary depository successful Coimbatore, covering subjects specified arsenic geology, botany, past and art. It holds astir 1,500 artefacts, of which astir 900 are connected display, portion the remaining are successful the reserve collection. Work has begun to cleanable and hole both, the displayed and reserve collections for the move,” said K. Devi Priya, curator of the museum.
Mr. Murugavel added that the oldest artefacts day backmost to the eighth century. Among these are a three-tier leader stone, Pattanam chromatic inscriptions, and a burial urn believed to beryllium astir 2,000 years old. All were recovered from sites wrong the district.
According to Mr. Murugavel, the past artefact added to the depository was a metallic icon recovered from a farmland successful Perur successful 2021. No caller artefacts volition beryllium added. Relocating the displayed artefacts to Semmozhi Poonga whitethorn assistance the depository scope a wider audience, including younger visitors who are unaware of its presence, helium said.
The relocation work, with an allocation of ₹1 crore, is expected to beryllium completed wrong this year.
