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Centre for Studies in Museology and Sheikh Noor –ud- din Noorani Museum of Heritage is a modest attempt on the part of University of Jammu to capture the rich, pluralistic and composite cultural heritage of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh regions. The museum also intends to serve as a nodal for the dissemination of the ideas and concepts of restoration, preservation and conservation of non-renewable cultural legacy of the region.

 

                                                         

                                                                                                Inner view of the Museum

 

The centre and the museum is located on the first and ground floor of General Zorawar Singh Auditorium. The museum presently displays different categories of artifacts in a continuous historical sequence, which offers a glimpse of the trajectory of cultural developments in this region from pre-historic time onwards.

Work on the museum was started in the year 2004 and was inaugurated BY His Excellency Retd. Let. Gen. S.K. Sinha , Governor of J& K state in the year 2006. The university museum is first of its kind to have been opened in the state.

 

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

Centre for Studies in Museology and Sheikh Noor-ud-din Noorani Museum of Heritage has been set up to showcase the rich pluralistic cultural heritage of the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh regions.

The museum aspires to:

• Serve as a major Resource Center for the preservation and promotion of the diverse cultural facets and arts of the people of the State.
• Exhibit representative collections of cultural development in the region.
• Create a ‘Folk and Tribal Arts’ division with a core collection for conducting study, exhibition and live presentations.
• Organize Exhibitions and Live performances through multimedia projections, conferences, seminars and workshops between and amongst diverse arts: traditional and contemporary.
• Evolve models of research programmes and art administration pertaining to the region.
•  Promote the awareness of historical and cultural linkages between Duggar and other regions.
•  Develop network with National and International institutions.
•  Encourage and conduct in house research in the Arts, Humanities and the Culture    of the region.
• Establish in future a network of small eco museums in various parts of the region to involve the local communities in heritage awareness and conversation.
• Provide the facilities and support for its staff to pursue innovative research, by responding to developments in the intellectual environment and society at large, and by forging close links with the wider academic world, the professions, industry, and commerce.
• Promote challenging and rigorous teaching which benefits from a fruitful interaction with the research environment, facilitating the exchange of ideas through tutorials and small-group learning and exploiting the University's resources in its libraries, museums, and scientific collections, to equip its graduates to play their part at a national and international level.
• Maintain and make best use of the advantages of its independent colleges, where members' intellectual and personal development is fostered within a stimulating, multidisciplinary academic community, and academic life is strengthened through the provision of high-quality support services.
• Attract students of the highest calibre, from the country to its undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education courses, widening access by actively seeking students from diverse backgrounds and extending further opportunities for life-long learning.

Mission

The mission of the Museum is to serve as a catalyst for instruction and scholarship in the history / art and culture of the region by acquiring and conserving works of art and also teaching and research. It further aims at sensitizing the civil society by conducting exhibitions, publishing catalogues and special studies, offering lectures, organizing symposia etc. The working of Museum is closely associated with students and other faculty of Jammu University, the faculties of other universities, the curatorial staffs of other museums the world over, and all interested members of the civil society. It is also intended to make use of the museum’s collection and resources for scholarly and pedagogical purposes, as well as for aesthetic pleasure and inspiration, and in training future museum curators and conservators in the details of museum profession. The mission of the museum would also be to expose undergraduates to the importance of art in all cultures; and to encourage the broader understanding of art and its history among the general public. The endeavor also aims at the teaching, research and community-oriented activities of the university through visual communication of important and interesting works of art.

Besides, the museum seeks to develop into ‘laboratory, ‘or ‘an interpretation centre’ where a community studies it’s past & present, its environment, its natural and cultural heritage in order to have a clearer grasp of its own future. The totality of the museum functioning is not thus, restricted to its own four walls.

This has necessitated a global action for museums to “step out” and reach the community with the realization that community has different facets each with its own requirements. The universally accepted principle of community participation for sustained interest / development is applicable even to museum field.

Towards this end, museums also approach “Heritage” in its wider connotation and hence are concerned with its heritage resources within and outside its precincts.

 

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