The second day of three-day National Seminar on ‘Ethnographic Museums in India: Contributions, Representations and Future Possibilities’, on Monday, 21 valuable presentations were made on theme regional scenario, theme based museum and ethnographic museum state initiatives.

In this, Prof Manvi Seth, Dean (Academic Affairs) and Head of the Department focused on the role of community involvement in the museum by project her recent researches by documentary the intangible cultural heritage of Laddakh.

After that Alka Pandey (Art Consultant and curator, Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi) talk about the Kanha Museum of Life and Art. This Museum is any exemplary model of one of the concerted effort to merge indigenous art life style into contemporary societies.

Sucheta Sen Chaudhuri (Associate Professor, DTS, CUJ, Brambe, Ranchi) spoke on Ethnographic Galleries in Museums of Jharkhand: Some Selective Case Studies and she told that Geographical, temporal, functional, historical, social-transformational and political parameters are taken into account for manifestation of artifacts as per the themes. Roles of curators as well as nature and level of viewer’s participation in various events of experiential learning are enquired. Presentation on the theme based museums from the Technical sessions five to seven of the day witnessed spell bounding works and initiatives of the museum. Ganeev Kaur Dhillon, Curator (Exhibition), The Partition Museum, Town Hall, Amirtsar told on Creating A People’s Museum, It started with the vision and dream to have a museum remembering the millions affected by the partition, and from the start, a founding value was that it would be a People’s museum.

It then had to translate that vision to reality by building its collection from scratch through outreach to people. This paper focuses on the partition Museum’s experience in building a collection for an event that is 70 years in the past.