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On 20th Nov, 13 students from SDM Kannada High School, Dharmasthala: joined us to participate in the Manjusha Museum’s Activity on Ganjifa Cards-“A Treasure Trove Of Playing Cards”. Organized: Manjusha Museum Planning and Direction: Chaitra Rao Sharma, Art Historian and Conservator, Manjusha Museum. Chief Guest: Dr Pavan Kumar, Associate Researcher, SDM Oriental Research Institute, Dharmasthala. […]

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 […]

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 theManjushaMuseum 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 the spectacle! […]

Coiled Pottery activity at Manjusha Museum, Dharmasthala An activity rooted in rural tradition took place on 18th of July at the Manjusha Museum, Dharmasthala on clay modeling with huge response. Students from SDM Kannada medium high school participated in clay modeling activity and articulated their creativity. The Museum organized this activity for students to make […]

Has your camera given you a picture with a live tiger dancer yet? Or portrayed you as a Yakshagana artist even in your everyday attire? Let’s get that done! Manjusha Antique Museum at Dharmasthala is observing the World Camera Day in a very special manner this year. Our beloved President, the Dharmadhikaari Dr. D Veerendra […]

Manjusha Antique Museum at Dharmasthala organised a unique event for students on the 1 st of June, Saturday. A Treasure Hunt contest inspiring fun based learning was organised for the first time at the museum where ancient artefacts were portrayed in the form of treasures to be sought out by the students. 16 students from […]