Sanskriti Museums are a set of three museums namely, Museum of ‘Everyday Art’, Museum of Indian Terracotta (tribal art) and Textile Museum. It is housed within Sanskriti Kendra complex, at Anandagram, an artist village complex, spread over eight acres, situated 10 km south of New Delhi,Sanskriti Kendra Terracotta & Metal Museum Delhi Museums, Official website of Delhi Government.Sanskriti Foundation near Aya Nagar on Mehrauli–Gurgaon Road, on the outskirts of Delhi.Delhi city guide, by Eicher Goodearth Limited, Delhi Tourism. Publisher Eicher Goodearth Limited, 1998. . pp 238. The nearest Delhi Metro station is Arjan Garh, on the Yellow Line.
The museum was founded by O. P. Jain in 1990, under the aegis of the Sanskriti Foundation, a New Delhi–based non-profit organisation established in 1978.
Sanskriti Foundation
Sanskriti Pratishthan or Sanskriti Foundation is a non-profit culture and arts promotion organisation in Delhi set up in 1979, with O P Jain, L. M. Singhvi, Dr A M Singhvi and Sudarshan Agarwal as trustees. In the early years, it was largely privately funded by its members, later on it was received government funding, and from organisations like Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), and the Ford Foundation, and recently from the corporate sector. The construction of present Kendra premises began in 1989. Today the foundation also runs artist-in-residence programs here, and workshop for scholars, artists and craftsmen, plus it has residential studios, a library, an amphitheatre and an art gallery.Sanskriti Kendra
As its first project, the foundation instituted the 'Sanskriti Awards' in 1979, given to promising young talent in the group of 20–35 years, in five major fields, Literature, the Arts, Music, Dance, Theatre, Journalism and Social/Cultural Achievement. Next the Museum of Everyday Art established in 1984 contains items of everyday use. The foundation also runs 'Sanskriti Yatra' workshops on cultural awareness for school children. Its three- month residency programs is run residency programme in collaboration with UNESCO, Asia Link and the Fulbright Fellowships Program.Sanskriti Foundation, An Introduction Museumologist Jyotindra Jain is trustee and Director of the Foundation.Jyotidra Jain profile, Trustee-Director at Sanskriti Foundation
Museum of Indian Terracotta This Museum has over 1,500 objects of terracotta art, sculptures and figurines from the tribal areas of India, displayed in the backdrop of the respective tribal arts.Tales in terracotta: Set up in 1990, the Sanskriti Museum has contextualised and documented terracotta from all parts of the country, Indian Express, 15 May 2005.
Museum of Everyday Art
It houses a collection of what is called "Everyday Arts", where artisans turn the functional everyday household object like toys, nutcrackers, cups, saucers, spoons, and home shrines, articles of worship, into the works of art. WHAT'S DOING IN; Delhi Travel , New York Times, 30 November 2003. p. 2..
Textile Museum A showcase of the best of, and the most diverse of Indian textile heritage.
References
External links
Sanskriti Museums, New Delhi Sanskriti Museums at Google Cultural Institute