The Administrator Chandigarh, Banwarilal Purohit visited Government Museum and Art Gallery and Sukhna Lake with Sh. Dharam Pal, Adviser to the Administrator. Other senior officers of the Administration. Members of Art Culture & Heritage Committee were also present on the occasion.
The Administrator took a round of the Architecture museum where he was explained the purpose of the building as a repository of the history, growth and development of Chandigarh.
Purohit expressed concern for the valuable displays and the need for their preservation and conservation. Dr. Sangeeta Bagga , Principal Chandigarh College of Architecture explained the process of conservation of the drawings , prints, tracings and other materials through scientific methods. It was decided that the exhibits would be preserved through a committee under the overall guidance of Adviser to the Administrator which would engage the Conservation Laboratories specialising in this field on priority .
Digitisation of the artefacts was also proposed to be subsequently done. Thereafter, the Administrator took a round of the Government Museum and Art Gallery to see the unique design of the State museum based on the concept of the unending spiral and as a Museum of Unlimited Growth expressed by Le Corbusier himself. .
The Administrator stressed on the need to increase awareness and publicity of the museums as measures to increase the footfall at the museums. He congratulated the staff of the Architecture and State museums for their hardwork and encouraged them to maintain the museums as vehicles of dissemination of knowledge for all the citizens irrespective of age.
Further Purohit also visited the Sukhna Lake along with the Adviser and other senior officers and members of the Art Culture Heritage Committee. There were some
suggestions by the committee like installation of warm lights at the island of Lake and also reducing the intensity of glow signage board installed at the entrance to Lake by 50%.
Administrator directed to shift the signage to some other appropriate place so that maximum number of visitors can read the messages.
