The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Manuscripts Day celebrations at Government Museum in Egmore

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Manuscripts Day celebrations at Government Museum in Egmore

Staff Reporter

Exhibition on various methods of preservation was also organised

CHENNAI : The Government Museum in Egmore on Wednesday conducted an exhibition on various methods of preserving manuscripts, coinciding with `Manuscripts Day' called by the National Mission for Manuscripts.

Students from some city colleges, including Madras Christian College, Women's Christian College, Bharti Women's College and Quaid-e-Millet Arts College, participated in a workshop on methods to read and to preserve manuscripts.

The Government Museum had earlier announced that it would take up free restoration of old manuscripts on the occasion of the Manuscripts Day. A few used the opportunity.

R.Kannan, Commissioner of Museums, and Dawn Stanly, Head of Department of History, Madras Christian College, participated in the inaugural ceremony of the Manuscript Day celebrations and a seminar on "Our role in preserving manuscripts".

V.Jeyaraj, project co-ordinator for Manuscripts Conservation Centre at the Museum, said the National Mission for Manuscripts had surveyed several manuscripts across the country over the past four years and had taken up the digitisation of the rare ones.

There were 47 manuscript resource centres and 33 manuscript conservation centres in the country.

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