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Sulabh International Sulabh International Museum of Toilet,established in 1992 is the first of its kind in theworld. 3.2 million People have visited its websitein 2014 according to a survey. The timemagazine USA found this museum at 3rdposition in a list of 10 strangest museums in theworld.Founded by Dr. Bindeshwar pathak toshowcase the detailed evolution of toilet system.The collections are meticulously displayedchronologically. The museum operates in a hallin the complex of sulabh international socialservice organisation. The collections that are apart of the museum are replicated by artistsfrom the original structure which dates back toas long as 3rd millennium B.C.Mr. B.Jha, museum curator looks aftereverything from collection to display. Thephotographs depicting toilet system of last fivethousand years are a part of museum collection. The museum does not take entry fee or parkingfee, neither is there a guide charge. As thecurator makes it very clear that the museum isnot being operated as a commercial unit butrather as a social campaign on sanitation.Toknow more about this amazing museum andtheir special events and exhibition Visit thewebsite.

It's a not a museum, it'snot a place of artefacts,

it's a place of ideas. -Jeanie Kahnke

In Association With Hermes Paris


Other museums tell youwhat is going inside, we

on the other hand tellpeople what is going

outside. We makepeople aware about

harmful effects of opendefecation. It’s a

pioneer museum thatdeals with the aspects

of sanitation andhygiene.-B. Jha

MAI HONOURS SULABH


The Museums Association of India held its 69th

annual conference in the Shree Swaminarayan

Temple Museum, Ahmedabad on Jan.2729,

2017. It was attended by 80 plus delegates from

different parts of India. Shri Bagrshwar Jha,

Curator and Miss Shikha Verma, Asstt. Curator of

Sulabh International Museum of Toilets

represented their museum. H.H. Tejenderprasadji,

the sixth generation head of the Swaminarayan

cult graced the occasion while the Mayor of

Ahmedabad was the chief guest. On Jan. 27, the

Mayor honoured Shri Bageshwar Jha with the

Lifetime Achievement Award2016 for his

contribution to the museum field. Shri Jha was

presented a memento and a shawl amid a

thunderous applause by the audience.

Immediately after that brief investiture

ceremony, both H.H. Tejenderprasadji Maharaj

and the Mayor of Ahmedabad along with Dr. Mani,

Director General, National Museum, Dr. P.K.

Sharma and Dr. Anand Burdhan, President and

Secretary respectively of the Museums

Association of India released the book, Museum

Musings:Hail Heritage, authored by Shri

Bageshwar Jha.


In the afternoon academic session of the secondday (Jan 28), presided over by Shri S.K. Pathak,Shri Bageshwar Jha made a presentationentitled MuseoSpiritualism. The paper wasbased on the allotted theme. Shri Jha arguedthat whether it is a temple or a museum, theremust be adequate number of toilets for thedevotees/visitors to ensure sanctity of the placeincluding a hygienic ecology. He also suggestedboth institutions to come together to enhancetheir outreach. Like museotourism, we can alsoexperiment with museospiritualism. Shri Jhasuggested that like the Buddha circuit and theRamayana Circuit, one can also go for museotemple circuit. Since museotourism and museohealthcare have been increasing footfalls, themuseospiritualism may also open a new vistabenefiting both the institutions, Shri Jha added.







Interview

3. What is your favorite part about workingin the Museum?A curator is a person who looks aftereverything that is happening at the museum. Iam involved with all the activities of themuseum, from collection of toilet models totheir conservation and display. My favoritepart is making everybody aware of theimportance of sanitation and hygiene anddoing that in an innovative way.

4. Why do you believe museums arevaluable in today’s world?Today when tourists and even locals set out toexplore and travel nobody has time to visit allthe popular historical places, hence to havecompact and complete information about anyplace, museums have become a gotodestination for that.Earlier museum going was a leisure now it hasbecome almost necessary if you want togather detailed and fast information about anycountry, city, town etc.In a nutshell museum is a microunit thatmirrors the whole evolution of society. Afamous tourist saying goes like “if you go to acountry and have no time to visit all theplaces, atleast see the national museum ofthat country”.

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Shri Bageshwar JhaDirector

Sulabh International

1. What is the nature of yourmuseum?Ours is a Sanitation and Hygiene

Museum. A first of its kind that

showcases the history of toilet system

from 2500 B.C. to modern age.

2. Can you tell us a bit about yourposition and what you do at theMuseum?B.JHA. Trained museologist from

national museum institute, new Delhi

and conservator from government

museum Chennai with first class post

graduation in ancient Indian history. I

have been curator at this museum since

2001.


6. What is your favorite object in thecollection and why? 1. French bookshelf type toilet.The French would build a big book and name itafter a famous English classic and on this bookconstruct a toilet to shame British. This practicehighlights the cultural animosity between twonations.2. A throne like chamber of French emperorLouis XIV who while using it simultaneouslygave audience to select people for his politics.Thus sought official matters in the toilet.

7. What would you like visitors to gain from avisit to the museum?Toilet is as necessary as kitchen in home and itshould be as clean. We would like to imparthygiene knowledge to as many people as wecan. Half of india’s population, which is about 60crore people indulge in open defecation. And ofthe other half very few have access to cleantoilets. Hence making toilets is not enough, weshould also create awareness about need oftoilets and proper sanitation and harmful effectsof unhygienic practices.


Real museums areplaces where time is

transformed intospace- Orhan Pamuk

5. What has been the most notableproject you have worked on?

The two significant projects that we

have started under sulabh international

social service organization are:

1. Started sulabh toilet museum corner

in Tamil Nadu science and technology

centre, Chennai. It presents a brief

account of toilet systems from the

ancient times and over 5000 people

visit the center daily. It has become a

museum in itself that showcases

development in sanitation and toilet

department over ages.

2. Started sulabh school club that make

school children and medical students

aware of the importance of sanitation.

School and medical students spend a

day at the sulabh campus and witness

wash campaign.

Sulabh through this pioneer wash

campaign is acting like a preventive

medicine through its hygiene session.


8. How important is in your view, digitalpresence for the museums? Have you takento social media for promotion of yourmuseum?Sulabh international museum of toilets have theirown website and are active on facebook.Everyday happenings of the museum are put onfacebook on day to day basis. There are around50100 posts that are updated through socialmedia daily. We believe in going tech to save themuseum from wreck.

9. What steps or technology have youintroduced to attract more visitors to yourmuseum?Ours is a small museum though getting famousand extremely popular, but now we are thinkingof getting a bigger space to accommodate all theartifacts and collection which we keep adding.

10. What are future endeavors and prospectsof your museum?After receiving such warm reactions from visitorsthe management is thinking of shifting themuseum to a bigger space to accommodate theever growing collection.






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Indian Museum

Events

2. Clay lamps and kulhads turn Noida mallinto an art museumThe installations will be displayed in the mall till

February 18, 2017

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/noida/clay

lampsandkulhadsturnnoidamallintoanart

museum/articleshow/56762706.cms

“Titled 'Excavations in Hymns of Clay', the

project saw artist Manav Gupta create art

installations with clay lamps, kulhads, and

chillums to form a oneofits kind travelling

museum in the mall.”

3. Indian museums to share collections withBritish MuseumExhibition to be held on 3rd of February 2017.

http://www.businessstandard.com/article/pti

stories/indianmuseumstosharecollections

withbritishmuseum117013000720_1.html

“The exhibits from across the globe will be

brought together in confluence, with each group

representing an important moment in India's

history .

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1. 2017 Asia Arts Awards India.Wednesday, February 1, 2017, Taj

Man Singh Hotel New Delhi.

http://asiasociety.org/india/events/201

7asiaartsawardsindia0

A Gala Celebration honouring the

Asia Arts Game Changers .


Indian MuseumNews

2. Urban museum to come up in smart cityJanuary 29, 2017

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubanesw

ar/urbanmuseumtocomeupinsmart

city/articleshow/56850878.cms

“Bhubaneswar: The city will soon have a stateof

theart Urban Museum to showcase its past,

development over the years, culture, heritage and

Smart City project. The Bhubaneswar

Development Authority (BDA) has identified a

land in UnitVI for the purpose.”

3. India’s first museum on Indian Diaspora toopen in New Delhi January 7, 2017

http://mediaindia.eu/diaspora/indiasfirst

museumonindiandiasporatoopeninnew

delhi/

The Indian government is looking for curators to

design and build India’s first museum on the

Indian diaspora. The museum will try to capture

the trials and suffering that generations of Indian

emigrants weathered before achieving success in

their respective countries. It will also try to portray

their role in keeping alive India’s cultural traditions

and languages in foreign lands for centuries.News Sponsors Hilton Hotels





1. 7 Extraordinary Museums in Indiato VisitJanuary 21, 2017

https://www.desiblitz.com/content/7

extraordinarymuseumsindiavisit

India has a diverse culture and learning

about it can be very fascinating. What

better way to explore the culture and

dynamism than in creative and unusual

forms.


4. In a first, India gets its own multisports

museum at New Town

Jan 26, 2017

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/in

afirstindiagetsitsownmultisportsmuseum

atnewtown/articleshow/56787115.cms

KOLKATA: “Sporting exploits, achievements,

records and memorabilia frozen in time and

feted across the world are set to be showcased

in the country's first multisports museum.”

5. A museum’s mountain muse in Ladakh

January 21, 2017

http://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/travel

/2017/jan/21/amuseumsmountainmusein

ladakh1561 395.html

Nearly 200 rocks and minerals have been

studied and preserved inside a little oneroom

place called Ladakh Rocks and Minerals

Preservation Study and Museum. Considering

the geological history that it safeguards, it is

unfortunate that it is still little known.

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InternationalMuseum News

2. National Museum of Singapore launchesfirst digital galleryJanuary 30, 2017http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/nationalmuseumofsingaporelaunchesfirstdigitalgallery/3480080.html“The role of the museum has changed over theyears, expanding its focus beyond presentingthings of the past to include creating aconnection with the present,” said director of theNational Museum of Singapore Angelita Teo.“Gallery10 is a space that provides us with theopportunity to do just that and more, through theadoption of digital and future technology tocreate an immersive experience for our visitorsto engage with history and art.”

3. Scotland home to the ‘world’s smallestmuseum’January 30, 2017http://www.forfardispatch.co.uk/news/scotlandhometotheworldssmallestmuseum14353006The William Burke Museum, which displays onlyone exhibit – a calling card case made out of theskin of notorious Edinburgh “bodysnatcher”William Burke, opened its doors to visitors inEdinburgh’s West Bow on Saturday – exactly188 years after the execution of William Burkeon January 28, 1829.News Sponsors Hilton Hotels





1. Sir John Soane’s Museum offersup collection to global audienceJanuary 30, 2017

https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/3

0january5february2016/sirjohn

soanesmuseumofferscollections

globalaudience/

Sir John Soane’s Museum in London

has begun the process of 3D scanning

its collections, to bring them to a global

audience online.


4. 32 museums in Southern California will befree on Jan. 29Janauary 16, 2017http://abc7.com/society/32socalmuseumswillbefreeonjan29/1705622/“LOS ANGELES (KABC) More than 30museums in Southern California will open theirdoors for free during the 12th annual MuseumsFreeforAll on Jan. 29.Visitors will be able to take in art, culturalheritage, natural history, and science at 32museums free of charge.”

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Artist Of The Month

I f y o u w a n t u s t o c o v e r y o u r a r t . C o n t a c t - a c f 5 5 6 6 @ g m a i l . c o m

Mithu SenMithu Sen is a New Delhibased artist who is celebrated

both in India and abroad for her fantastical and

provocative multimedia works that earned her India’s

inaugural Skoda Prize in 2010. Sen is originally from West

Bengal and studied at Santiniketan before continuing her

art studies at the Glasgow School of Art. Sen’s practices

stem from a conceptual and interactive drawing

background that has extended into drawing, video,

sculpture, installation, poetry, sound and performance.

Visit her art work at -http://www.mithusen.com/

An art book is amusuem without walls

- Andre Malraux


Job Openings1. Conservator

National Museum Conservation Department(Contract Positions)

Last date of receiving Applications 20thFebruary 2017.

2. Trainee Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological

Museum India Last Date for Submission of Application: 2002

2017.

3. Conservator (Projects)Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts,

IGNCA New Delhi, DelhiLast date 5th February

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