Special talk to mark Museum Day today

Dharwad: INTACH-HDMC Cultural Heritage Museum in Dharwad will observe International Museum Day on Wednesday by organising special talks by experts at Ra Ha Deshpande Hall in Karnatak Vidyavardhaka Sangha at 5.30pm.
Srinivas Padigar, former professor, department of Ancient Indian History and Epigraphy, Karnataka University will deliver a talk on the ‘Concept of Museum’. Arvind Yalagi, director, Indo-Portuguese Literary Foundation, Goa will speak about ‘Cultural Properties of Karnataka displayed in international museums’. JH Kulkarni, former vice-chancellor, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad will preside over.
The Cultural Heritage Museum, which has come into existence in 2014 and located in the Municipal Corporation office premises, has tried to showcase heritage and disseminate information about it to the population of Dharwad district.
The department of Regional Archives will organize an exhibition of selected archival records in the premises of INTACH-HDMC Cultural Heritage Museum. The exhibition will be open to public from May 19 to 21 from 11am to 5pm.