With the National Institute of Design (NID) bagging the project to redesign the three-decade-old Sri Venkateshwara Museum at Tirupati, devotees to the Andhra Pradesh shrine will be able to see the history of one of the richest and most protected shrines in the world.
The institute, given the project by the Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanam Museum Project Committee, will revamp the temple museum located adjacent to the temple complex in two-year time.
The temple museum body took almost one year to finalise the project with NID, which has formed a core team, led by NID faculty Anil Sinha with colleagues Mihir Bhole, Krishnesh Mehta and Bhadresh Shukla to overlook the project as part of the institute's consultancy services.
"Currently, the museum has no thematic sequence or story. Our idea is to engage with the lakhs of devotees who wait for several hours before they get to enter the temple premises for darshan or prayers. We plan to divide the museum into three areas — pilgrimage, homage and passage. We will try to weave the story of Lord Venkateshwara and the temple around it," said Sinha.
While NID's core team have come up with a concept for the museum, they will research the artifacts within the museum in the next six months.
The institute, given the project by the Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanam Museum Project Committee, will revamp the temple museum located adjacent to the temple complex in two-year time.
The temple museum body took almost one year to finalise the project with NID, which has formed a core team, led by NID faculty Anil Sinha with colleagues Mihir Bhole, Krishnesh Mehta and Bhadresh Shukla to overlook the project as part of the institute's consultancy services.
"Currently, the museum has no thematic sequence or story. Our idea is to engage with the lakhs of devotees who wait for several hours before they get to enter the temple premises for darshan or prayers. We plan to divide the museum into three areas — pilgrimage, homage and passage. We will try to weave the story of Lord Venkateshwara and the temple around it," said Sinha.
While NID's core team have come up with a concept for the museum, they will research the artifacts within the museum in the next six months.
Source: The Indian Express