National Museum
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National Museum drops non-veg dishes from menu of food event due to 'sentimental' reasons
India | Feb 20, 2020, 10:15 PM ISTNon-vegetarian food has been dropped from the menu of the National Museum's week-long exhibition-cum-event on India's culinary history, Historical Gastronomica, due to an "unwritten policy" based on "sentiments", a senior official of the museum said on Thursday.
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Films have played a huge role in India's soft power, says PM Modi at inauguration of NMIC
India | Jan 19, 2019, 09:23 PM ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the National Museum of Indian Cinema (NMIC) on Saturday at a 19th century heritage bungalow in the country's film capital, Mumbai.
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3D digitisation of artefacts in National Museum
India | Jan 07, 2016, 04:48 PM ISTNew Delhi: National Museum has taken up a project for 3D digitisation of artefacts that would enable virtual viewing of the objects with minute details."National Museum has already digitised approximately 15,759 antiquities in 2D format
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Metro's Udyog Bhawan station to be 'gateway' to National Museum
India | Sep 17, 2015, 05:02 PM ISTNew Delhi: Delhi Metro's Udyog Bhawan station near Rajpath is being remodelled as a 'cultural hub' through the display of various artifacts in order to turn it into the gateway to the National Museum, located
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Futuristic natural history museum to come up in New Delhi
India | Jul 20, 2015, 10:26 AM ISTNew Delhi: Three years after it was lambasted by a parliamentary panel for failing to maintain the National Museum of Natural History, the environment ministry is all set to construct a new, state-of-the-art facility in
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Shah Jahan's daughters: National Museum launches performance
India | Oct 12, 2014, 01:21 PM ISTNew Delhi: Complexities of the Mughal royal lives portrayed by the daughters of Emperor Shah Jahan provided a debut story for the new history-centric performing show series launched by the National Museum here. A conversation
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Free guided tours at National Museum from Tuesday
India | Apr 23, 2013, 10:37 AM ISTNew Delhi, Apr 23: Offering an informed glimpse into India's rich heritage, spanning the pre-historical to modern era, the National Museum would be starting free guided tours of from Tuesday, it was announced here.Available in
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Bosnia's National Museum closes after 124 years
World | Oct 04, 2012, 09:50 PM ISTSarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Oct 4: It survived the breakup of the Austrian empire, two world wars, the longest city siege in modern history and a bloody war in the 1990s that killed 100,000 people. Yet after
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Smithsonian Honors Eastwood, Opens Theater On Mall
Hollywood | Feb 01, 2012, 08:59 PM ISTWashington, Feb 1: The Smithsonian Institution is honoring Clint Eastwood for his six decades of work in American film, and the actor and director is helping to open a new theater to showcase film at