National Museum Institute is a distinct museum university featuring modern facilities such as a formidable conservation laboratory, work-shop, multi-disciplinary collection of art-objects, photography department, library of art-books and slides and also educational unit.
This institute offers various courses in Conservation, Museology and History of Arts.
This institute offers short term courses and also arranges exhibition for Museology students every year.
This exhibition is a part of their practical work and such exhibitions are opened formally to the public as well.
This museum also publishes plenty of books and monographs, besides consultancy services to numerous institutions and museums.
The advantage
The need to learning the history of arts is helpful in restoring the oil paintings that includes arts of organic as well as inorganic material. The students learning here can compete for posts in galleries, museums and other universities.
Special Features
National Museum institute utilizes the infrastructure of the entire National Museum, its auditorium, laboratory, modeling section, workshops, library and photo section.
This institute runs M.A. and Ph.D. courses in the disciplines such as conservation as well as restoration of works of Art, history of art and Museology. These courses are integrated so a student can do his basic Museology course and then history of art and other conservation courses.
Foreign languages such as French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Greek and Chinese, or classical languages such as Tamil, Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian and Prakrit are mandatory to be learnt for M.A. as well as Ph.D. students.
German, French and Sanskrit classes are held between 1.30 to 2.30p.m in the institute itself. Apart from the theory classes, practical classes are also held.
Practical training to museums, academics, monuments and universities is well-arranged. The institute also holds regularly seminars, symposiums, special lectures and conferences in the relevant fields. However, English is the medium of instruction, but the students are permitted to submit their seminars, answer sheets, research papers in English or Hindi.
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