Archaeological Musuem’s 3 Day exhibtion

The Archaeological Museum, Department of History arranges a stall at the national Seminar on Ethnic communities and living museums and galleries a new museum movement with live put up of various arts and crafts of the different ethnic minority communities residing in Kerala today. The exhibitions were arranged in the college campus for three days. Nearly thirty students of the department actively took part in the exhibition as volunteers.  It was a great learning opportunity for them to understand how to organize an exhibition and conducting visitor studies and visitor education through interactive exhibitions. The posters dealt with the rise and growth of Archaeology as a discipline that helps to interpret material remains and thus study the past society and economy. There were posters in Pattanam and other major excavated sites in Kerala. Original antiquities were also displayed. These include coins (gold, punch marked coin, Dutch coin, British period coins like Anna etc), hand axe one of the earliest tools. the polished stone axe of the Neolithic times from a site in Tamil Nadu, Harappa perforated Jar from Dholavira, Kutch, Rajasthan, Black and red ware conical bowl from Nattamedu Tamil Nadu another black and red ware sherd, Turquoise glazed pottery recovered from Kottapuram backwaters during a survey by the department, models of nalukettu, srikovil of a temple, a serpent image sued in worship and Harappa sealing’s.

The exhibition was visited by four thousand people mostly students.