Being prepared for 2023 G20, the National Museum is not going out yet

The National Museum, which is to be moved to a new location as part of the Central Vista Redevelopment Project, is currently undergoing expansion and extensive changes, and has at least one more “five or six” on Janpath for its The present campus is likely to remain. Year ”, sources told The Indian Express. Officials said that the aim of the upgrade and transformation project is the G20 meeting to be held in New Delhi in 2023, when many heads of state and government and other dignitaries will visit the capital

. Officials said the aim is to turn the museum into a cultural exhibition of the country. A new Kashi gallery is being built under the makeover of the museum. The auditorium will be upgraded and the gallery dedicated to Central Asian antiques will be expanded and digitized with the help of IIT-Bombay. Officials said the museum has 17,000 paintings in its collection, Including rare ‘company paintings’ of the 18th and 19th centuries, which will now be prominently displayed. The museum has been closed to visitors since March 2020, while work is underway. Expansion and alterations are expected to be completed by the end of this year, even as the museum can be reopened to visitors by August, subject to Kovid-19.

Situation, officials said. A few years ago, after the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) shifted its headquarters to the heritage building on Tilak Marg, the ASI’s old building adjacent to the National Museum on Janpath underwent a major upgrade. The building now houses a display of rare Buddhist artifacts from the National Museum’s reserves. Many large and small temples were unearthed from the excavation done in Varanasi under the Kashi Mandir Corridor Project. The National Museum Institute located on the first floor of the museum building, which studied the new discoveries, will now include the Kashi Gallery. 

Officials said the museum’s collection would eventually be moved to the north and south block buildings as part of the Central Vista redevelopment project, but it could be 2026 before the new space could be repurposed for the purpose. However, to catalog the museum’s collections, The process of 3D scanning and inventory preparation is underway, he said. There is no word yet on what will happen to the current building on Janpath once the museum’s collections and exhibits have moved to Rajpath. The present National Museum at Janpath was established in 1949,