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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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
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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
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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
