Museum sponsor

  • Dr.Venu Vasudevan - Director General, National Museum

Museum leadership

  • Dr. V.K. Mathur - Curator (Education) - Administration, Education & Painting & Public Relations
  • Smt. Anamika Pathak - Curator (Decorative Art) - Decorative Art & Publication

Museum staff

Museum volunteers

Others

Remote/online participants

Resources for self-learning on GLAM and Wikipedia editing

Check the Beginners guide and then Explore the Bookshelf link at the top of this page. Once you have gained some confidence you can do with just the cheat sheet. You can also consider downloading (or printing) a copy of the GLAM help guide.

More about GLAM

Project: Department specific editing & QRpedia

Objectives

Team 1: Garuda in Wooden Vahana collection.
Team 3: Chauper: The traditional game
Team 4: The priceless Buddha Ivory tusk carving.
  • Enhance the museum experience for the "Decorative Art" department with the following:
  1. Focused article creation for key objects
  2. Article improvement
  3. QR code implementation.

Teams

Overall coordination

Team 1

Collection/Object: Wooden Vahanas collection

Page link: Carved wood vahanas in National Museum
Related material: Wikipedia:GLAM/NM/Articles/Vahanas

Team 2

Collection/Object: Jade Collection in National Museum

Page link: Jade Collection in National Museum
Related material: Wikipedia:GLAM/NM/Articles/Jade from Mughal era

Team 3

Collection/Object: Gyan Chauper (Original Snakes & Ladders game and its variants)

Page link: Gyan chauper
Related material: Wikipedia:GLAM/NM/Articles/Chauper

Team 4

Collection/Object: Buddha Ivory Tusk carving

Page link: Ivory carved tusk depicting Buddha life stories
Related material: Wikipedia:GLAM/NM/Articles/Ivory Carvings in India

Team 5

Collection/Object: Ivory carving of Dashavathar

Page link: Ivory Carved Dashavtar (Hindi)] | Ivory Carved Dashavtar (English)

Others

Media requests and release information

Do add any requests for media relating to the collections held at the National Museum - you can see the catalogue listed at http://nationalmuseumindia.gov.in/collections.asp (use the menu) - do indicate the article(s) where they can be used as well. Release of media is not guaranteed at this point of time but requests will help in setting priorities.

Reference requests

If you are seeking any Indian history / culture / antiquities references or pages that need to be looked up, please add them here. Volunteers will try and look them up the library and hopefully also be able to share page photographs with the requester. The museum unfortunately does not have an online library catalogue but do let us know if you have a hunch on any book or journal. Please sign your request so that we can get back to you.

Here is a gallery of some spines of the books in the library to give some sense of what you can find. Due to possibly copyright problems, these images are not on Wikimedia Commons. We have introduced the librarian to WP:RX but for practical reasons it may be easy for us to forward requests to her email addressn. She is open to helping out Wikipedians in the longer run by looking up reference requests.

Articles to be created/improved

Add articles that ought be created or improved as part of this project. (Any Wikimedian or museum participant can add based on the available collections and context)

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