MUSEUM OF ART & TEXTILE

• EXHIBITION AREASThe Kendra incorporates two museums – the sanskriti museum of India terra-cotta and the Sanskriti museum of everyday art.
These, the most public of all the spaces, needed special attention for clarity of movements.The layout of spaces is such that a visitor moves from one
exhibit to the next without repeating any.MUSEUM OF INDIAN TERRA-COTTAA series of modular units, have been arranged around landscaped
courtyards.GOOD PLAY WITH TRANSTION OF SPACES : The module, square in plan, has been used in various forms – sometimes as just a platform, a
room without roof, a room with roof but no walls, and sometimes totally enclosed with regular doors and windows . The roof is always pyramidal as
it suits the square plan and blends well with the scale and rural setting.A majority of terracotta belonged to open and semi-open environments.From
the common earthen pot that stores drinking water to giant-sized cultic equestrian figures of rural Tamil deities of the Aiyyanar cult, terracotta art
occupies a central position in Indian life and culture. Having had their existence always outside the rigid and binding rules and regulations of the
shilpshastras or the constituted Hindu canons governing artistic expression, terracotta art enjoys tremendous freedom in imagination and
conception. Sanskriti found it somewhat intriguing that in spite of their widespread usage, antiquity, artistic merit and cultural significance, terracotta
objects have not been systematically collected.

• 11 DISPLAYSEMI-COVERED DISPLAYOPEN DISPLAYENCLOSED DISPLAY

• 12 MUSEUM OF EVERYDAY ART TEXTILE MUSEUM TYPES OF DISPLAY

Situated at the Sanskriti Kendra, Sanskriti Museum of Everyday Art is a rich repository of about objects of everyday life of traditional India which
show some sign of excellence in craftsmanship, conception, design or ingenuity of pratical device.The collection includes folk and tribal sacred
images, accessories for rituals, lamps, incense burners, writing Materials, women's toiletries, weights and measures, ovens and tongs, locks and
latches, apparatus for opium and cannabis, vessels, children's accessories and kitchen implements.The museum of everyday art is housed in a
building sunk partly below ground and its roof is effectively used a outdoor exhibition terraces for the terra-cotta museum.DISPLAYTEXTILE
MUSEUMTHE MUSEUM OF EVRYDAY ART SUNK PARLTY BELOW GROUND BY 1500 M.TYPES OF DISPLAYENTRANCETEXTILE MUSEUM IS HAVING
FULLY ENCLOSED DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE MATERIAL.THE TERRACE OF THE EVERYDAY ART MUSEUM SERVES AS THE DISPLAY
AREA FOR ‘MUSEUM OF INDIAN TERACOTTA’.KEPT IN STAINLESS STEEL DISPLAY BOARDSWITH GLASS TO LOOK THROUGH.HANGING
• National Handicrafts and Handlooms
Museum
• The museum intends to serve as a typological resource for the study of
Indian textile traditions. It moves away from the ‘masterpiece’ culture as
much as from creating an exhaustive inventory of textile genres, as is
often the case with many museums of the kind. Its objective is to display
representative examples of important traditions of Indian textiles, and to
create a pool of information around these that could eventually serve as
an academic resource for study and research. In all, the museum has 450
pieces of traditional Indian textiles in its collection. The entry to the
Museum is through a room that throws light on cotton and silk, indigo and
madder as the basic materials of Indian textiles. The rest of the galleries
show representative examples of genres and sub-genres of ritual textiles,
embroideries, resist-dyed fabrics, and brocades and related techniques.
Each section and sub-section is introduced by a detailed text informing the
visitor about its history, typology, materials and techniques and cultural
significance. This is supplemented by individual captions accompanying
each displayed object.