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Membership Fees for 2010
Regular Members: Rs.1750/-
Retired & Students: Rs. 1050/-
In addition to this, new
members (both regular & retired persons) are to pay Rs. 50/- as Membership Registration cost.
Existing members please send your membership fees to the Treasurer,
with intimation to the Chairman of INC-ICOM, before 31st March
2010, by bank draft or Cheque in favour of "Indian National
Committee of ICOM", payable at Kolkata.
Note: Membership fees for Institutional
Members are not yet decided,
as on 02 FEB 2010. |
Apllication invited for Grace
Morley Research Fellowship for ICOM 2010
to be awarded by ICOM India Trust. Last
date:31 March, 2010. For
details click here. |
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INC-ICOM Executive Meeting was held on 27 JAN 2010 at BITM |
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INC-ICOM Executive Meeting was held at the Department of Museology,
University of Calcutta on Friday, 03 April 2009. View
Minutes. |
All the members of the Indian
National Committee of the International Council of Museums deeply
mourn the sad demise of our past President and former Director
of National Council of Science Museum -
Shri Amalendu Bose, who left us
on 29th November 2008. Obituary
A condolence meeting was
held at 3.00 p.m. on Wednesday,
17th December 2008 at the Exhibition Hall of Indian Museum, Kolkata,
in memory of Shri Amalendu Bose. View Pictures |
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INC-ICOM organised two days
long Seminar titled -
'MUSEUMS & PUBLICATIONS: Complementary
Concepts'
in association with
All Bengal Publishers' Association
and
Orissa State Museum, Bhubaneswar
on 23rd & 24th August 2008
at the Orissa State Museum, Kalpana Chauk, Bhubaneswar. |
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Dr. Arun Kumar
Chatterjee is elected as the new Chairman of INC-ICOM
Dr. Chatterjee, a well-known field anthropologist has worked
extensively among the tribal communities of the east coast and
the northeast of India collecting examples of their material
culture for the museums. He was for long the Keeper of the department
of Anthropology in the Indian Museum, Kolkata and presently the
Hony. Director of the Rarh Samskritiki Sangrahalaya, Kharagpur,
West Bengal. He is also a faculty of the Museology Department
of Calcutta University. He has served the Indian National Committee
of the ICOM in various capacities in the past and represented
in many of the Annual General Assemblies of ICOM.
Dr. A.K. Chatterjee is also the Vice - Chairman of the Museum
Association of India, and the Executive Member of the Art History
Congress.
Dr. Chatterjee can be contacted by e-mail : akc.22@rediffmail.com |
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INC-ICOM members deeply mourn the death of Late R.M.
Chakraborti formerly Chairman, INC-ICOM
Obituary
We the INC-ICOM members
deeply mourn the death of Late R.M. Chakraborti, formerly Chairman,
Indian National Committee (1996-2000). His contributions on practical
museological science will ever be remembered by the museum professionals
of the world.
Chairman, INC - ICOM (2003) |
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New books by the members
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Understanding Heritage : Role of museum |
edited by Dr. K.K. Basa and Dr. S.K. Ghoshmaulik published by
Academic Staff College, Bhubaneswar |
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Wood carving of Bengal in Gurusaday Museum |
edited by Dr. Shyamalkanti Chakravarti published by Gurusaday
Museum, Kolkata, 700104, Rs.100/- |
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Wood and metal effigies of Nagaland |
edited by Dr. Shyamalkanti Chakravarti published by Indian Museum,
Kolkata. Rs. 375/- |
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Belvedere, the house of books (in Bengali) |
by Dr. Shyamalkanti Chakravarti published by Pritonia Publishers
& Distributors, Kolkata 700009, Rs.
70/- |
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A new horizon of museo-thought |
by Sri Samar Bhowmik published by Mrs. R. Bhowmik, Kolkata 700028,
Rs. 150/- |
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Museum visitors |
studies by Dr. Venugopal Bhargaviamma published by National Museum
Institute New Delhi-110011 Rs. 110/- |
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Inauguration of the official
web site of INC-ICOM
The official web site of INC-ICOM (www.inc-icom.org)
to be inaugurated at the annual general conference, on 18th May, 2002 by Shri N. Gopalaswami, IAS, Secretary, Culture, Govt. of India, in
presence of Ms. Chandana Khan, IAS, Secretary, Tourism, Govt.
of Andhra Pradesh as the Guest-of-honour along with other dignatories.
Shri N. Gopalaswami, will also inaugurate the celebration of
International Museum Day, 2002 and a threeday seminar
& workshop on 'Museums and Globalisation', at Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad. |
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Making of a museum
A Jain Museum of art, architecture and
culture has been planned to be set up in the spacious hall of
the Manasthambha, unique in structure and height located in the
Sanctified sylvan premises of Sri Parashvanath Digambar Jain
upavan mandir at 26 Belgachia Road, Kolkata 700037.
-K.C. Jain, Kolkata |
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