ME AND MUSEUM

Museum Curators adopt many of the display options to mount objects for curating exhibitions. Items like mannequins, armatures brackets and hanging elements are used for displaying objects in a sensible way to protect the collections from unwanted damages that are liable to  cause mostly by an impractical way of exposition and presentation. Mannequins have been an important item used in the display of textile collections especially the cloths and garments. From the tailoring works of the royal guild to the space of Museum display; from the merchandised shops to the modern fashion industries, Mannequins have been used as an important component for exhibiting garments. The modern Show rooms of garments exhibit different collections of fashionable fabrics to attract the customers. The early forms of Mannequins prepared by wood, wax, papier-mâché and heavy fabric took an arduous level of workmanship to sustain the level of balance keeping the structure to an upright position. These ar...

HAMPAI Large size traditional vessel used by the socially dignified person for giving feast. Longpi village is located 40 Kms away from the Ukhrul district head quarter of Manipur. Majority of the villagers are potters who prepare handmade pots and household earthen ware as an important occupation in addition to their agricultural works. This age old skill of handmade pottery is inherited from their forefathers. Longpi Pot of Manipur has been able to attract large number of people from both the domestic and international arena. It is known not only for its unique shapes and innovated designs but also for the beautiful texture and metal like appearance normally used in various household functions either as kitchen utensils or decorative items for the fancy people. Traditionally, Longpi potter used to prepare Hampai (pot of a dignified man) for the noble family and a man of social status other than the common household utensils. Hampais were used in massive food preparation during s...

Anything around you may be a piece of Art. It needs only a sense of visualisation that how an image can be composed with your imagination and presented before the people. What you see and what you sense may truly be an object but how you have visualised it becomes more important. An artistic composition may attract your attention and may sometimes create an illusionary piece of art. This art work born out of the imagination of a person makes you compel to see it again and again. Art-piece may be produced in different visual media like painting, sketching, modelling, imaging or photography, crafting, carving, engraving, molding so on and so forth. Physically, what we see, may not necessarily be the same to an artist or a creative person. He or she may sense, visualise, and transform it into a creative forms sensed by his or her imagination or thought and the reflections of which becomes a product of Visual or Creative Art. When we see any object, it immediately tran...