Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is partnering with IIT Kharagpur to establish a modern, digitised museum in Town Hall.
The museum will digitally showcase the contributions of luminaries of the Bengal Renaissance, the Independence movement in Bengal and the role of KMC in steering the direction of the freedom struggle.
The rationale followed was that the Renaissance of Bengal is actually the epicentre of the Renaissance of India.
According to KMC Mayor Firhad Hakim, both the state government and KMC were keen to digitise the museum at Town Hall, which is a Grade-I heritage building.
Joy Sen, architecture & regional planning professor, IIT Kharagpur, was the principal investigator for the project.
An NGO, Purono Kolkatar Golpo (PKG) partnered with IIT Kharagpur as content developer.
The proposal involves four galleries to digitally highlight the evolution of KMC, Bengal Renaissance and the Freedom movement, emphasised Swarnali Chattopadhyay, a PKG group member associated with the content development.
Among other showcases, the digital museum plans to highlight the Father of Quantum Physics, Werner Heisenberg and Rabindranath in Kolkata in 1929.
Even Nobel laureate Wolfgang Ketterle’s tribute to Satyendranath Bose on the Bose-Einstein formula would be highlighted.
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