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Scholarships awarded by Indian Organizations for study inside the country and abroad to the students of museum studies and museology 1. Aga Khan Foundation Aga Khan Foundation (India)Sarojini House, 2nd floor, 6-Bhagwan Dass RoadNew Delhi 110001Tel: (11) 23782173, Fax: (11) 23782174, Email: general@akfindia.org Web: www.akdn.org/akfisp/HTML/index.html 2. Atur Foundation Ms. Kamiesh Atur Foundation HouseAtur chambers, 4, Dr. Ambedkar RoadPune 411001 Phone: 020 - 26128560, 020-26121297 3. Bharat Petroleum Delhi Co-ordination OfficeECE House, Post Box No.7, Connaught Circus,New Delhi 110001Phone : 011-23316891 Fax : 011 23316894 Web: http://www.bharatpetroleum.com/ 4. Hornby Scholarship Web: mailto:Havovi.kolsawalla@in.britishcouncil.org E-mail: mailto:Havovi.kolsawalla@in.britishcouncil.org 5. India Foundation Travel Grants The Executive Secretary, India Foundation595 Budhwar Peth,Pune 411002 6. India foundation Travel Grants The Executive secretary, India Foundation595 Budhwar PethPune

Scholarship Programs for museum studies and museology The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee provides a Museum Studies Certificate Program, which may also be pursued by Art History majors. Through the Art History department students in the Art/Museum Studies program may qualify for various department scholarships: Nadine Walter Memorial Scholarship is given to a graduate student in the department whose academics are excellent. Awards are $2500. The Weber Fund provides modest assistance to grad students working on a thesis. Lawrence Holey Memorial Prize goes to a best essay. Chancellor's Awards go to new students based on previous academic performance. The Museum Studies program at San Francisco State University is a top-notch and highly competitive graduate program. Of the hundred or so students who apply for admission to the major, only a fraction are accepted. SFSU awards a band of scholarships based on varying combinations of academic merit and financial need. Students are auto

AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN (WESTERN AUSTRALIA) JILL BRADSHOW MEMORIAL BURSARY ACADIA UNIVERSITY Scholarships /Bursaries ALL INDIA COUNCIL FOR TECHNICAL EDUCATION (AICTE) Career Awards for YoungTeachers AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION - International Research Fellowship AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION-International Fellowships AUSTRALIAN DEVELOPMENT CO-OPERATION SCHOLARSHIPS(ADCOS)-AUSTRALIA Australian Development Scholarships (ADS) AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY (QUEENSLAND) FREDA BAGE FELLOWSHIP AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN (QUEENSLAND)COMMEMORATIVE FELLOWSHIPS AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN (WEST AUST.) MARY WALTERS MEMORIAL BURSARY AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN (WESTERN AUSTRALIA) FOUNDATION BURSARY AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN GEORGINA SWEET FELLOWSHIP AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN SOUTH

Hosting: Mr. A.K.V.S. Reddy Mr. Ahemad Ali Mr. Virendra Staff of Salajung Museum Welcome: Mr. P.K. Sharma Mr. Rajesh Prasad Mr. Anand Bardhan photographs of hyderabad and conference are also available @ http://picasaweb.google.com/gaurav4810/HYDRABADMYVIEW 01.03.2008 Arrival of guests started at 7:00 pm to different rail, road and air ways. Some of luxurious hotels in Hyderabad were booked for the accommodation of delegates. Accommodation for senior museum professional was arranged in hotel ‘Rajdhani’ while hotel ‘Charminar’ accommodated the young museum and other professionals. 02.03.2008 Mostly all delegates approached at 2nd of March. Breakfast was served to the delegates in their hotel’s room. On the special request by Mr. Supreo Chanda, Mr. Ahemad Ali arranged a wagon for a little trip of famous places in the city Hyderabad. About 20 people boarded this bus for the visit of State Museum Hyderabad, Birla museum of science and technology, Birla Mandir, Nicholas road. Rest of the del

Generally preventive conservation is supposed as the safeguarding as well as increasing the age of collection by the use of different means and measures, before it starts deteriorating. It is well known that insects are the greatest threat for the museum collection specifically of biological origin. I focus on the dry stuff of biological origin for the preventive conservation in museum collections. Here dry stuff means wood, thick paper, hard leather, tough bark etc. Till date only chemicals are used for pest control yet but none of the instrument could be manufactured for the prevention of collection from the insects. Due to tremendous development in technology, in the coming future museums would be using more sophisticated and effective electronic instruments for better collection care, than present. No doubt, experiments done with gamma radiation give some hope but the results were not satisfactory. Main problem with the use of gamma radiation is that it has extreme of energy which

Theme: Recent Advances In Preventive Conservation of Musuem Collection The 40TH National Conference on the theme “Recent Advances and Preventive Conservation of Museum Collections”. Organized by the Department of Museology held at AMU in collaboration with Indian Association for the Study of Conservation of Cultural Property, New Delhi, National Museum, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India. In Conference Hall Administrative Block, AMU Aligarh from 5th-7th February 2008. Inaugural: Session 1st The inaugural function on 5th Feb, began with the welcome note by Prof. Absar Mustafa Khan, Dean Faculty of Life Sciences, AMU who welcomed and introduced the delegates about the different department and courses run by the University, the history of the Museology Department of the University and inspired the young scientists for hard work. Prof. M. V. Nair, President IASC in his introductory remark emphasized on the significance of Preservation and Conservation and distinguished between the right a

INTRODUCTION Today when museums are stunned with the extraordinary entertaining performance of other institution, malls, PVRs and theatres, a new competition is ahead of museums. One of the realities of museums today is the constant need to search for new ways to educate, entertain to excite and above all to give a holistic experience of museum to the audience. In new array of education by various bodies, museums need to be innovative as they always did. In last two decades, computer has invaded museums on a large scale. Museums are now using a new mode of computer facility to educate their audience known as Virtual Reality (VR). The very first use of term “Virtual Reality” is found from 1982 in a science fiction novel “ The Judas Mandala ” by “ Damien Broderick ” where the context of use is somewhat different from that defined here. Later in 1987 “Packer and Jordan”, in "Multimedia: from Wagner to Virtual Reality," explore the term and its history from an avant-garde persp