Dr Das:
"As we all know, each individual according to his taste & other things collected things...postage stamps, coins & some according to their financial position- paintings, drawings& other objects. These are mostly collected initially for pleasure- to decorate the house, if you build a big house you need proper things. Then there are also collections made by specific institutions like textiles, craft objects & other things. There are even museums exclusively devoted to footwears, shoes & there is also a toilet museum. So you know the varieties are almost endless. The private collections, as long as the person who starts it, he is present there– he enjoys it, he allows visitors or he doesn't allow. Sometimes he allows things to be published sometimes he doesn't but that comes to a bit of a problem when he or she passes away or loses interest in that. Then the collection is offered to either the museums & that is one of the best ways for a museum to make its collection.Half of the museums in the world are based on bequests- gifts, given by private individuals who collected actually a lot of things in their life & then found that these are best enjoyed if they are put on public view. So some of the largest museums in the world are actually created from private benefactors including the great institutions like the BM or MET then that constitutes the core collection then they provide funds & other funds are also generated."
Dr M Sardar:
"Working in museums is important to me beyond just what I get out of it personally, because they also open up community space& moving between the different museums, I have over the last few years what that community is& how the museum can facilitate that sense of community, has really changed not only over time but depending on the context. Both the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha & the MET attract huge tourist populations & you tend to think less about the people from the city making some place as their home. So you’re kind of representing a whole country in that way & how their interest in the arts & how their collections reflect the heritage & interest in history and world civilisations on behalf of the country. But working in San Diego or at the Aga Khan, I’d say we’re more interested in our local audiences & people resident in the city who might come back- hopefully week after week but probably, more likely year after year. But who do return to our museums on a repeated basis & for whom we provide an experience outside of their ordinary day to day- going to offices, or taking care of their kids or cooking dinner kind of existence & a chance to interact with works of art & hopefully be inspired just as those of use behind-the-scenes at the museum are able to do."
Dr Das:
"So the collection once it enters the museum it becomes the job of the curators to grade them according to their importance, relevance, outward beauty & attractiveness to the visitors. I remember when I was a student of museology, one of our teachers &he is perhaps the best museologist that I ever encountered, Prof DP Ghoshtold us that you may find at the entrance gallery of the museum in a showcase, properly displayed- a pair of torn chappals. A pair of torn chappals kept in a museum in one of the most important vantage points? Why? Then if you tell them this was worn by Mahatma Gandhi during the Dandi march, at once it attains a completely different meaning & stature. Then it doesn't remain a mere pair of torn chappals, then it becomes a historical relic. Similarly if you go to the Patna Museum you will find in their vault there is a special area where they have displayed the remains that were found from KapilaVastu- the remains of Lord Buddha kept in a crystal jar kept there. Now particular objects are important to half the people of the world, especially the Buddhist, because they contain the remains of Lord Buddha. So automatically it becomes a different type It has to be dealt with in a very special manner, people have to be told, the story will have to be related properly- so this is the job of the curator, of the curatorial staff."
"because in the museum you find visitors from all walks of life- there are young students, adults, older people, farmers, army members &visitors from all over the world. Each one comes with different expectations, a different idea& the museum is able to cater to the needs of them, that means the collection will have to be sufficiently attractive, important & presented with sufficient thought... they will have to be important from different points of view as well as educational. Now for that there are also a series of ancillary things that the museum will have to provide- labels, small write ups, booklets, brochures, publications like catalogues & audio-visual methods or sometimes trained guides/guide-like service. So that is another part- the academic part of it- to make the things sufficiently understandable, etc."
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