History In The Making!

A Three-Day Workshop Module

There are those who believe that a Museum is always only a serious institution. It is a place where you must always be quiet, even reverential; observe everything, do nothing. Above all, it is unthinkable to have ‘fun’ at a museum.

Remember these people. Spare a thought for them at Christmas. For they will miss out on all the fabulous and fun things we will be doing at the Museum this Christmas vacation!!!

This December, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (formerly Prince of Wales Museum of Western India) and The Pomegranate Workshop present History In The Making! - a unique opportunity for children to explore the rich and vast treasures of the Museum with ingenious new workshops that include visual art, creative writing, clay modelling and calligraphy.

Over the course of the workshop, the children will literally experience history in the making, as they revisit the techniques and materials used in the creative arts down the ages. Our multidisciplinary faculty boasts of a number of experts who have developed simple, tailor-made workshops where children apply their own imagination to spin new myths, paint their own stories, create ancient seals using clay and churn out water colour paintings of the museum itself.

And that’s not all: every session will include a visit to a part of the Museum conducted by the Museum Curators, where children can develop a familiarity with the pieces of heritage that reside within the Museum.

After all, if you’ve got all these cool things lying around since a thousand years, from totally way-out places like ancient India, China, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Europe, it would be a pity not to have some ‘fun’ with them. Right?

The schedule for the workshops is as follows:

Saturday, 26^th December 2009

Outdoor Water Colour Painting

Participants will be taken through a brief history of the Museum and its Grade I heritage building and then taking advantage of the most suitable December weather, the participants will sit outdoors and paint their own picture of the Museum’s heritage building in water colours. Artists will take them through the basic process of visually breaking down the structure into basic forms and gradually building up a water colour painting complete the foliage surrounding the monument just as the children see it from where they sit.

Monday, 28^th December, 2009

Seal of Approval

The participants will be taken to the Coins’ Gallery and the Pre & Proto History Gallery of the Museum showcasing ancient seals and coins, with some information on the period in which they were used, stories about illustrious kings who introduced new seals or a different system of coinage. Then the participants can make their own seals using clay.

Tuesday, 29^th December 2009

Quilling Time

In this workshop, participants will be made to explore the effect created by different scripts of calligraphy by practicing the use of different tools of calligraphy and then to create their own calligraphic compositions.

CONTACT:

Museum Office/ Publication Counter

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya,

159/61, M. G. Road, Fort Mumbai - 400 023

Ph.: 2284 4484, 2284 4519.

Email: csmvs@hathway.com, csmvsmumbai@gamil.com

For further queries please contact:

Prasanna Mangrulkar, Asst Curator, CSMVS (ph 22844484 / 22844519)

Priya Srinivasan, Director, The Pomegranate Workshop (9892210539)

The Pomegranate Workshop

Room 14, Shantaram Niwas

Gokhale Rd (North)

Near Portuguese Church
Above Waman Hari Pethe showroom

Dadar West Mumbai 28

Ph 32159952

Email: pomegranateworkshop@gmail.com