Heritage, Museums & Everything

For past three months I had continuous bare encounters with rich central Indian culture, its Material and customary Heritage........... one thing that was creeping in my mind continuously was the new definition of heritage...........now I feel Heritage is an Inventory of High and Low Dynamic Cultural Values with the constant resonance and changes where Past reflects in Material and Customary forms affecting the Present to weave a Definable and Flexible Future. Kindly ensure a critical comment below the post.................!

GAURAV Scientist D/HO RMNH, Bhubaneswar Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change Govt of India   A country like India may happily count itself one among the five greatest civilizations ever existed on the globe. For more than five thousand years Indian has witnessed great relations with other civilizations and changes on the levels of average communal wisdom, Art, Culture, Religion, Economy and Administration. Changes in any of the said factor lead to great ups and downs to others as all these had been inclusive and complex ingredients for Great Civilizations. Any statement on the continuance of heritage or conveyance potential of art for heritage, needs the Heritage to be redefined, in terms of inheritance and its functionality as a social system. I believe heritage itself is an active system. Heritage includes tangible and intangible forms of arts and vice versa Arts and artifacts carry several forms of heritage. Intangible heritage exist in inclusive form of Memory (ma