Visitors are actively involved in creating an artistic representation of The City Palace, Udaipur at Zenana Mahal

Visitors engaged in an artistic representation
of The City Palace, Udaipur

CPM Conservator Selected for IIC Programme

Ms. Bhasha Shah, Conservator, The City Palace Museum, Udaipur has been selected for the IIC Congress Scholars Programme 2024-25 titled "Innovate: Sustainability and Leadership for New Times." This six-month online international leadership course, offered by the International Institute of Conservation (IIC) with support from the Getty Foundation, will accommodate 30 participants from around the globe. The programme includes online masterclasses, interactive sessions, and mentoring focused on sustainability and leadership within the conservation profession. Participants will engage in discussions that emphasize innovative strategies and practices essential for contemporary conservation challenges.

Internships at the Museum

In August 2024, two interns joined the curatorial team at the City Palace Museum. Ms. Bulbul Agarwal, an archaeology enthusiast from RTM Nagpur University in Maharashtra, focused on documenting the museum's old sculpture collection, showcasing her expertise in iconography.

Ms. Vatsla, a postgraduate in Museology from the National Museum Institute in New Delhi, documented the intricate silver artistry of Mewar. She conducted research on every stage of the process, from mining silver to crafting the final object, and produced a video highlighting this rich heritage. Both interns actively participated in the educational activities of the curatorial department. The City Palace Museum extends its best wishes to them for their future endeavors.

Development in Maharana Mewar Special Library

Maharana Mewar Special Library (MMSL) is an excellent resource for scholars and researchers. It has a collection of more than 36612 books till October 2024 on different subjects. The Library has special collection of books dedicated to Literature, Religion, History, Arts, Zoology, Sports and General Geography of different parts of India and the globe, and a rare collection of books on the Mewar dynasty. All the books were processed in Accession Register. Classification done by Dewey decimal classification 19th Rev. Edition, Cataloguing (AACR II) and Bibliography; details uploaded in Library housekeeping software. Libsys and Eternal Mewar web site http://eternalmewar.in/mmsl. Stamping, tagging and scanning were also done on all these books.