Event Poster- Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav

Panelists in discussion

Heritage Management Industry: Trends, Prospects & Opportunities

Dr. Shikha Jain, Director, DRONAH, Consultant, MMCF, conducted a session on Heritage Management Industry: Trends, Prospects & Opportunities for the Tourism Faculty at Amity School of Hospitality, Gurgaon, on 4th July 2021. Her session also touched on Udaipur, the Museum, and the Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation, and its contributions towards the tourism sector

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GETTY Awarded grant for curatorial innovation in prints and drawing to The City Palace Museum, Udaipur

Grants made as part of The Paper Project feature diverse and understudied collections

19 new grants totaling over $1.55 million will support exhibitions, publications and digital projects that center the graphic arts as part of the Getty Foundation's ongoing Paper Project initiative.

Prints and drawings are an unsung area of curatorial innovation and a place for museums to bring new forms of storytelling to their permanent collections. Launched in 2018, The Paper Project funds professional development and experimental projects for curators around the world who study prints and drawings to make graphic arts collections more accessible and relevant to 21st-century audiences.

The Getty Foundation awarded The Paper Project grant to The City Palace Museum, Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation (MMCF) for an exhibition and publication on 18th - to 20th century maps and landscapes from Udaipur, India and the project curator is Dr. Shailka Mishra from Hyderabad.

Mapmaking has been a part of the visual repertoire of Udaipur since the 1700s, as court artists of the Mewar dynasty regularly depicted real-world buildings and terrain. With the advent of colonial cartography under the British, these methods underwent radical change and new technologies were introduced. Showcasing works from the City Palace Museum's never-before-exhibited collection of 2,000 maps, architectural drawings, and landscape views, an exhibition and catalogue will examine artistic representations of the "City of Lakes" alongside topographical maps and plans. Together, these media provide an opportunity for guest curator Shailka Mishra to study and present shifts in the visualization of architecture and landscape over more than two centuries, tracing how Udaipur artists responded to transformations in cartographic practice.

"Permanent collections that include prints and drawings are the lifeblood of museums, archives and libraries," says Heather MacDonald, senior program officer at the Getty Foundation. "As the cultural sector moves into postpandemic rebuilding, institutions have a tremendous opportunity to refocus on their own holdings while they also invest in the professional growth of their staff.

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