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Museums successful Hyderabad are nary longer simply repositories of artefacts and royal collections but person evolved into spaces that foster taste exchange, sphere accepted craftsmanship, and make shared nationalist experiences successful an progressively polarised world, said conservation designer and curator Anuradha S. Naik. She was delivering a lecture astatine the State Museum successful Hyderabad connected Monday, connected the juncture of International Museum Day.
Speaking connected the taxable ‘Museums Uniting a Divided World: Hyderabad-A Case Study’, Ms. Naik examined however 3 of Hyderabad’s large museums, the State Museum, the Salar Jung Museum, and the Chowmahalla Palace, service arsenic spaces wherever radical from antithetic regions, cultures and countries interact done history, practice and art.
Beginning with the State Museum, wherever the lecture was held, Ms. Naik described it arsenic 1 of Hyderabad’s astir important nationalist museums alongside the centrally-run Salar Jung Museum and the privately-managed Chowmahalla Palace Museum, which she has been associated with for the past 2 decades. “Museums successful the metropolis pull visitors not lone due to the fact that of their collections but due to the fact that they make affectional and taste connections that transcend boundaries,” she said.
Ms. Naik said the State Museum records yearly footfalls of astir 25,000 visitors portion the Salar Jung Museum attracts implicit 10 lakh visitors annually, with overseas tourists forming a tiny but important component.
Turning to Chowmahalla Palace, Ms. Naik described however the erstwhile spot of the Asaf Jahi Nizams was converted into a depository by the household of the past Nizam, Nawab Mir Barkat Ali Khan Mukarram Jah, done a not-for-profit spot aimed astatine giving thing backmost to Hyderabad. She said the palace, erstwhile restricted to lone a prime few, was opened to the nationalist and has since go profoundly embedded successful the societal and taste beingness of the city.
She said Chowmahalla Palace, which received astir 20,000 visitors annually erstwhile it opened successful 2005, recorded implicit 6.25 lakh visitors successful 2025. According to her, the depository has generated employment for implicit 100 radical and boosted the micro-economy astir the Old City by encouraging the maturation of heritage-themed shops, cafes and antique stores.
Also contiguous astatine the lawsuit was Telangana Minister for Tourism and Culture Jupally Krishna Rao. Addressing the gathering, Mr. Rao announced that the authorities would allocate ₹5 crore for a specialised grooming and recruitment programme for tourer guides aimed astatine generating employment opportunities for section younker astatine humanities destinations portion ensuring visitors person high-quality information.
On the occasion, the Minister released authoritative brochures alongside 2 books titled ‘Paramara Jagaddeva’s Inscriptions successful Telangana’ and ‘Stucco Sculptures successful Centenary Museum’.
