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National Mission on on Monuments and Antiquities
The National Mission on Monuments and Antiquities (NMMA) was launched
in 2007 with the objective to prepare a National database on Built Heritage and
Sites (BH&S) and antiquities from different sources and museums during the
XIth Five Year Plan for information and dissemination to planners, researchers
etc., and better management of such cultural resources. Keeping in view the
magnitude of the work involved, and as per recommendations of National
Productivity Council in its 3rd Party Evaluation Report, NMMA has been made
a Division of Archaeological Survey of India.
As part of the mandate, NMMA has to prepare two national registers
viz., (i) National Register on Built Heritage and Sites and (ii) National Register
on Antiquities. About 2.00 lakh data on Built Heritages and Sites has been
documented from various secondary sources. NMMA has documented data
of approximately 15.00 lakh antiquities so far from different sources.
National Mission for Manuscripts
The National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) was launched in 2003 with the
Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA) as the nodal agency to reclaim
India's inheritance of knowledge contained in the vast treasure of manuscripts.
There are Manuscripts Resource Centres (MRC), Manuscripts Conservation
Centres (MCC), Manuscripts Partner Centres (MPC) and Manuscripts
Conservation Partner Centres (MCPC) all over India to locate, to document,
to conserve and to digitize the tangible heritage of India.
Major activities of NMM are documentation of manuscripts through survey,
conservation of manuscripts through preventive and curative methods, training
courses and workshops on conservation-methods, manuscriptology and
paleography workshops for teaching ancient scripts, digitization of manuscripts
for archival and easy access to the knowledge-base, dissemination of knowledge
contained in the manuscripts through publications, outreach programme to
create public awareness of the importance of manuscripts.
National Museum
The National Museum, functions as a subordinate office under the Ministry of
Culture since 1960, houses over 2.6 lakh art objects dating from pre-historic era
onwards. The main activities of the museum are as follows: exhibitions,
reorganization/modernization of galleries, educational activities and outreach
programmes, public relations, publications, photo documentation, summer
holiday programmes, memorial lectures, museum corner, Photo unit, modelling
unit, library, conservation laboratory and workshops.
National Gallery of Modern Art
The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi was founded in 1954
to promote and develop contemporary Indian Art. It houses 17,858 works of
art, representing about 1,748 contemporary Indian artists. The collection has