For reprint rights: Times Syndication ServiceKolkata: PM Modi unveils statue at Old Currency Building, meets CCI delegationStudents protest against NEP outside Kolkata’s Jadavpur UniversityBJP dismisses speculations of its leaders joining TMC, calls them conspiracyCOVID-19: West Bengal idol maker’s business slumps by over 50%Bengal BJP worker’s body found hanging from tree, BJP blames TMC for incidentShocking: West Bengal BJP booth worker’s body found hanging from tree, family blames TMCGiant fish weighing nearly 600 kg caught off Digha Coast in WB, sold for Rs 50,000Garbage accumulates on iron bridge following rainfall in SiliguriHeavy rainfall leads to severe water-logging in WB’s SiliguriWatch how a bridge in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri caves in after incessant rains Currency Building to be turned into exhibition hall for NGMA Our whole plan is to make it a hub of arts. Download the Outlook ​Magazines App. Ongoing exhibition. "The senior official visited the building located in the central business district accompanied by ASI and NGMA officials, said "We are building this on revenue model, How we will run this place with a good amount of footfall, people who are interested in art, people who love going around, young people, everyone will be happy. Kolkata, Jul 19 (PTI) The 185-year old Currency Building here will soon be turned into an exhibition hall for the National Gallery of Modern Art, Union Culture secretary, Raghvendra Singh said today. It was built later on.) View the restored and re-installed historic photographic panorama, one of the most fascinating and popular interpretative features on display at the Old Treasury Building. We had removed these walls to create a feel of space.
There is so much which this heritage building can offer as a National Galley of Modern Arts. The wrought iron portico in the front was not there in the picture. "We are doing restoration, renovation, complete revamp work in all these places - basically to bring an entirely new experience, to what all these places can offer. The ASI took charge of the building in 2003 but got possession only in 2005.Singh, who also visited the National Library earlier in the day, said four permanent exhibitions will come up at the library - themed on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and INA, Rabindranath Tagore, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Shyamaprasad Mukherjee as part of an initiative of the Union Ministry of Culture. Melbourne Panorama. The Currency Building (Currency Building on the right. ""When we went there we discovered there was lot of partition walls coming up in recent times. Robinson and named after Sir Charles T. Metcalfe. By George Tseng Articles 0 Comments. Six magazines, wherever you go! See the Old Treasury Building vaults which were used to store the gold bullion mined during the gold rush. We are not adding anything to this," he said adding restoration work is nearing completion and the building will be opened for public before the Durga Puja.As National Gallery of Modern Arts, Kolkata chapter, the restored building will house a gallery which will house all kinds of priceless exhibits from the antiquity section of National Gallery of Modern Arts, Delhi and elsewhere and the exhibits will be replaced in every six months, he said. Saint Andrew's church is at the far end. Copyright © 2020 Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. All rights reserved.
INSIDE of Old Currency Building in Kolkata. Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a new statue at Old Currency Building on day one of his Kolkata visit. "We plan to turn it into a museum of Kolkata," he said adding there will be proper illumination by restoration experts in all these buildings. "We have plans to organise light and sound shows at National Library in future dwelling on its rich past and legacy," he said.The National Library is the largest library in India by volume of books.While the history of the National Library began with the formation of the Calcutta Public Library in 1836, in Independent India it was named as National Library and on February 1, 1953 was opened to the public.Singh said the ASI was also doing restoration work at Metcalfe Hall, a "truely majestic building. Jan 11, 2020, 10:09PM IST Source: ANI. Ongoing exhibition. Sensing this weakness, probably, and to fill up the void, the prime minister on January 11 opened the splendid exhibition, Ghare Baire — The World, The Home and Beyond: 18th-20th Century Art in Bengal, in the Old Currency Building of 19th-century vintage, restored by the Archaeological Survey of India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a new statue at Old Currency Building on day one of his Kolkata … The Governor. These places did not offer anything for long," he said.Metcalfe Hall was built between 1840-1844 according to the design prepared by the city magistrate, C.K. "We are just restoring the building and maintaining ambience as it had been over the centuries. The photograph was taken in 1885. These documents may record large purchases by government institutions rather than ordinary retail prices, and wages of skilled craftsmen rather than the general level of earnings. Ongoing exhibition.