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    The Tribal Museum in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh was commissioned in 2004 to represent tribal communities through their architecture, materials, forms, and aesthetics. The museum building itself is inspired by tribal designs, with galleries raised on steel columns over sloping terrain. Displays were created by tribal artisans and anthropologists to showcase aspects of tribal life, culture, dwellings, food, crafts, rituals, and more through interactive exhibits. The galleries aim to educate visitors about the cultural diversity and lifestyle of Madhya Pradesh's tribal populations.

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    The Tribal Museum in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh was commissioned in 2004 to represent tribal communities through their architecture, materials, forms, and aesthetics. The museum building itself is inspired by tribal designs, with galleries raised on steel columns over sloping terrain. Displays were created by tribal artisans and anthropologists to showcase aspects of tribal life, culture, dwellings, food, crafts, rituals, and more through interactive exhibits. The galleries aim to educate visitors about the cultural diversity and lifestyle of Madhya Pradesh's tribal populations.

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    The Tribal Museum in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh was commissioned in 2004 to represent tribal communities through their architecture, materials, forms, and aesthetics. The museum building itself is inspired by tribal designs, with galleries raised on steel columns over sloping terrain. Displays were created by tribal artisans and anthropologists to showcase aspects of tribal life, culture, dwellings, food, crafts, rituals, and more through interactive exhibits. The galleries aim to educate visitors about the cultural diversity and lifestyle of Madhya Pradesh's tribal populations.

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    7/17/2019 Tribal Museum Case Study

     Tribal museum
     The Museum of Tribal Heritage at Bhopal was
    commissioned by the Government of Madhya Pradesh
    in 2004 The Museum is designed to create a built fabric
    which the tribal communities could identify with!
    e"tend! and evolve! to represent themselves and
    e"press their own ideas and way of life with ease and
    spontaneity #hile the architecture of the Museum is
    inspired by tribal rhythms! geometries! materials!
    forms! aesthetics and spatial consciousness!
    these very $ualities are now acting as points of inspiration for the
    display materials being created by tribal artisans! supported by anthropologists! sociologists and social wor%ers

    &ocation'
    Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum
    (hyamala Hills! Bhopal 4)2002! Madhya Pradesh! *+,*-
    Phone' ./ 1 2))/43! 2)))40
    mail' contact5mptribalmuseumcom!
    mplo%%ala5redi6mailcom

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    Built on a site of seven acres! the galleries are raised above the
    ground on columns! forming a continuous! multileveled veranda!
    following the contours of the sloping! roc%y terrain 
     The structure is built of steel tubes! castellated girders! and
    steel rods fabricated into intricate trusses

    (teel seemed
    ancient to be
    *ron -ge a natural
    7 Bron8e -gechoice in the land
    civili8ations! and7 location of 
    the
    contemporary truc% body building industry 
     The roofs are made of half9round tiles! galvalume sheets and
    concrete with a topping of grass and groundcover

    i beam

    steel
    tubes

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      :irculation'
    • -fter entering person has 2
    choices whether to go to the
    museum display or to the
    warehouse
    • -fter entering the main
    museum circulation path has
    been de;ned to ma%e visitors
    go to through the same
    passage and e"perience the
    whole museum
    • - separate passage way has
    been de;ned for the peoples
    with the o<ce related wor%
    • (pecial care has been ta%en for
    the movement of the
    physically challenged visitors

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    • - central area for seating for the fatigue


    • :entral area was created around
    the small manmade la%e with duc%s Ma%ing the view $uite rela"ing  

    =e$uirements of tribal museum'

     Par%ing 2 (ervice entry


    > =eception 4 (hop
     -dministration )
    ?pen air theatre 
    1 "hibition area 3 #ashrooms
    / #ater facility 0 ?pen air courtyard

    Materials of building'

    •  #alls were made up of local stone left e"posed


    • ?ther walls were made up of bric% plastered
    with crushed stone on the outside and mud plaster on the inside
    •  The roofs are made of half9round tiles! galvalume sheets and
    concrete with a topping of grass and groundcover
    •

    •
     The
     The plant material
    landscape is composed
    is designed of largely
    to collect local rain
    and store forest species
    water!
    to be used for both cooling and irrigating the green roof! and gardens

    ,isplay'

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    Best thing about the tribal museum! Bhopal was


    its way of displaying tribes and di6erent cultures
    People can actually touch the sculptures They can
    feel the material -ll the sculptures and other
    show casing things were created by the tribal
    people themselves using the basic and old
    techni$ues
    -s there were no rare things in displays! so there
    was no re$uirement of the conservation lab
    *nstead of conservation lab there was a warehouse
    made for the restoration of the displays and the
    sculptures &arge and bigger halls provide the
    (u<cient space to display big things and yet ma%ing the
    :irculation easy
     The gallery has been divided into 4 parts'
    Gallery '9 The gallery showcases cultural diversity
    of the state The gallery has been arranged so that
    all9encompassing culture of Madhya Pradesh
    emerges before visitors automatically - huge tree
    is shown in the midst of map of Madhya Pradesh
    Below the map! geographical presence of all ma@or
    tribal clans of Madhya Pradesh has been displayed
    through signi;cant symbols

    Gallery
    gallery 2'9
    HereTribal lifestyle
    a huge food has been
    grain displayed
    container has in thisre9constructed *nformation about diverse aspects of tribal
    been
    life has been given through ultramodern methods :hanges witnessed in tribal dwellings during last  to 1
    decades have also been displayed

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    Gallery >'9 This is aesthetics gallery where tribal cosmetics have


    been displayed apart from phases of tribal life! rituals! festive songs
    pertaining to festivals and auspicious occasions etc There is a
    marriage canopy in the midst of the gallery 6ort has been made to
    personify events pertaining to seasons and agriculture! ballets!
    attires and elegance

    Gallery 4'9 This gallery has been presented li%e a ,ev &o% *t has
    been decorated with twin%ling stars and constellations -part from
    deities of stateAs Gods and Goddesses! &ingo ,ev %i Gudi and
    Madiya ham etc of Bastar have also been displayed in it ?ther
    e"hibits include Malwi Mata %i Gudi! (heetla Mata %a (than! Ghotul!
    armaseni tree and a street in which potter! waterman! blac%smith!
    gold smithAs houses and tools have been displayed  

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