Month: September 2019

To celebrate world photography day on the 19th of August, we will be inviting a group of sixty students, aged between fifteen and twenty, from two schools, to the Manjusha Museum to enter into our photography competition! Thirty students from each school will divide themselves into ten groups of three. Each group will choose two […]

Following the success of our last activity which focused on ‘coiled’ pottery, we invited a group of twenty students from a local school to visit the Manjusha Museum and partake in another workshop, this time focusing on Indian leather puppets, another ancient art form. Have you ever seen a traditional leather puppet show? They’re quite […]

On the 3rd of September 2019, we invited a group of eleven local students to the Manjusha Museum to learn about preservation and conservation. The two-day workshop introduced students to museum conservation via a tour around the museum’s major artefacts with our head conservator. The students then participated in an interactive workshop with the conservation […]

To mark Krishna Janmashtami on the 24th of August, we had an ethnic day at the Manjusha Museum. All the members of staff wore a form of traditional Indian clothing. The men wore lungi and the women wore sarees to celebrate Indian culture. It was a nice way to celebrate the birth of the Lord […]