Museum for tribal freedom fighters, Chhindwara, Madhya pradesh

Abstract

It is proposed to develop Museums dedicated to the contributions o the Tribal people in India to the freedom struggle. It has been suggested that the museums should trace the history along the trails, along which the tribal people in hills and forests fought for their right to live. The museums will, therefore, combine ex situ display with in situ conservation, regeneration initiatives. These will be museums, objects as well as ideas. These will demonstrate the way tribal struggles for protecting their custodial concerns for the biological and cultural diversity of the country, have helped in nation building. A concept note and a letter duly customized for individual experts are enclosed to seek further suggestions.the museum will be networked with a series sites, terrains and surviving structures, along the track traversed by the tribal freedom fighters. This should form part of freedom tour trails, buttressed by basic conservation, using local artists and pristine material, illustrated literature and memorials, indicative of the highlights on the trail.The freedom trails are connected with both monumental and non-monumental features like painted and engraved rock shelters, sacred groves, temples, shrines, forts, non-monumental features like sacred groves, hero stones, living megaliths, lakes as well as with intangible elements like heroic sagas and narratives, set to music, held in custody by local communities,bearing witness to freedom trail history and archaeology, and These would require documentation as well as revitalization. The display narrative may not be planned as a static, once for all presentation. It should be multi-layered, which can be unfolded on a digital table or wall, and changed with new research The input should be generated on a participative platform, with the partnership of tribal story tellers, song makers, artists and theatre persons, working together with professional choreographers and impresarios, informed and empathetic about the theme, best if locally available and of eminence, on the actual scene of action. The display may not be handled as a conventional contract without a prior specification of the obligation for authenticity.The report seeks a new direction for designing a museum space.The modern methods are applied which are based on Interactive Design, Artificial Intelligence and Storytelling or narrative of Tribal life an their struggle. The report also seeks to focus on cultural heritage, a new technique for Museum Experience Design, traditional, visual and multimedia communication etc. It will also focus on investigating and analyzing the spaces, and also to understand their characteristics and mutual relationship profoundly which would be responsible for activating of emotions and a mixture or combination of ideas, beliefs, styles, etc inside the museum with the spatial arrangement of various spaces (exhibition spaces, rest spaces, traffic spaces etc) depicting the tales of Tribes of Madhya Pradesh The museum is being planned not to museumize the tribal, but to understand and voice true perspectives about the tribal vis a vis development, and to secure tribal contribution to nation building without subverting tribal identity.