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The Museum of Rural life

 

 
Ceiling of the entrance

Interiorly the museum is divided into various sections. The very first room contains a collection of Harappan pottery and coins which were collected from Sector 17 of Chandigarh.

 


Next is an open kitchen which includes all the necessary kitchen equipment like a big paraat, an  old type of Chulha (the hearth), a peerhi etc. Besides there are two dummies of house wives - one carrying a gaggar (the bronze pot) on her head and another rolling the chappatis. In a room on the left are placed old bronze utensils for cooking, eating, drinking and milking the cattle.


The low walls of the open air Kitchen


Grain Bins

The next room has other household equipments like grain storage bins, spinning wheel, other equipment for ginning, spinning, weaving etc. Besides there are pictures of village artisans by the artist Kehar Singh. A dummy of a lady making trouser string lies in the centre of this room. 



Grindstone

The next room one enters in contains a beautiful dummy of a house. Wife grinding grains with the handmill. This room also contains some home equipments and baskets made from reeds and date leaves. Outside this room in the verandah is a kuppa (a huge oil container). 


The next section contains musical instruments like Dholak (the drum), and other string instruments like Sitar, Sarangi, Tumba and Algoza.
The next compartment has a cradle for the baby, a large cot, a walker and other toys. Items that were given in the dowry, the vanity boxes, the mustard oil lamp are all there.


There is a dummy of a housewife churning milk.

Then there is a well with all necessary equipment for drawing water.
Next lies a small closet with items involved in religious ceremonies.


After passing through another room containing decorations and harnesses, saddles and Jhuls for cattle, horses and camels, we come to a section that contains traditional agricultural implements. 


The balcony built primarily for display of Phulkaris looks fabulous. There are dummies of 7-8 housewives embroiding the phulkari.


There is another dummy of a bride sitting in a Dola just about to leave her parents home.Representation of Bhangra Dance of Punjab is done through toys.


 
Dress of Punjabi 

Bride

The typical dress of a Punjabi lad and lass are on display

 
Dress of Punjabi

Bridegroom


The jewelry and the Punjabi Jutis (foot-wears) are also displayed in showcases

This museum reveals the true picture of rural Punjab. All the visitors thus are much enthralled by its splendor. 

 

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