Museum Studies- Festschrift to Dr. M.L. Nigam

About the Book Museum Studies contains selected essays on museums.

Thirty-five articles contributed by museologists 'and those researching in museums cover diverse types of museums located in almost all the states and spread across the length and breadths of India.

Papers present ted in this volume cover - history of museums, museum orientation, technological applications, virtual and modern museums, museum processes, museum architecture, museum and corporate world, friendlier museum, social accountability of museum, ecomuseum, museum publication, etc. and also collections such as - paintings, terracotta, sculptures, copper plates, coins, textiles, excavated remains, pottery, beads, seals, masks, ethnological collections, ranging from prehistoric times to contemporary period.

With first hand information on variety of museums, from.

traditional to modern museums' and with more than 180 illustrations this volume would be of interest not only to the professionals and students of museology, archaeologists, artist, architects, but also to students and even to common readers interested in art, culture, and education.

About the Author Professor Alok Tripathi (b, 19665) is a young leading archaeology. Presently. Director, Center for Archaeology and Museology, and Head, Department of History in the Assam University, Silchar he is known as a renowned authority him underwater archaeology in Asia-Pacific region, With h is hack around will science he learned and mastered in diverse branches of archaeology archaeology, heritage sensing, art and architecture, and muscuology. Widely suave led and worked in more than 1:1 countries in Europe. Africa and Asia, he has executed a number of privet ago us projects and directed important archaeological excavations. Book's Contents and Sample Pages