MODA GOA

MUSEUM &
RESERCH CENTRE
COLVALE, GOA,
INDIA
Submitted By: Prachi Yadav
20BFD1111
Group B
ABOUT
GOA MUSEUM , also known as the State
Archaeology Museum, Panaji, is a museum in
Goa, India. Established in 1977, it contains
departments including Ancient History and
Archaeology, Art and Craft, and Geology. The
museum, as
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display, including stone sculptures, wooden objects,

carvings, bronzes, paintings, manuscripts, rare
coins, and 2017
anthropological2018objects. Currently, 2019
the
Museum is located at the Adil Shah's Palace (Old
Secretariat) in Panaji. The Museum's erstwhile
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premises at the EDC Complex in Patto, Panaji shall
be demolished to make way for a new Museum
building.
HISTORY
The museum was created as an Archaeology
Museum unit of the Department of Archives
in Goa in 1973, opening a small museum in a
rented building on 29 September 1977. After
building a new museum complex, it was
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formally inaugurated by the President of

India on 18 June 1996. The museum's
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exhibits provide information about the
ancient historical and cultural traditions of
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Goa, which are displayed thematically, to
showcase different aspects of the history and
culture of Goa.
ART
An exhibit within the Contemporary Art Gallery includes a
pair of an antique rotary lottery machines . These were
known as Provedoria lottery machines manufactured
in Lisbon. A few pictures also display the procedure for
operating these machines. They have thousands
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of
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wooden balls, and the first lottery draw is stated to have

been held in 1947. There are many miniature paintings
from different
2017
regions of India 2018
. The gallery has paintings
2019

and sculptures of Goan and Indian artists such as R.

Chimulkar , F. N. Souza, S. H. Raza, M. F. Hussain, K. H.
Ara and many more which have been borrowed from the
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Kala Academy and Institute of Menezes Braganza. 

ART
An exhibit within the Contemporary Art Gallery includes a
pair of an antique rotary lottery machines . These were
known as Provedoria lottery machines manufactured
in Lisbon. A few pictures also display the procedure for
operating these machines. They have thousands
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
of
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

wooden balls, and the first lottery draw is stated to have

been held in 1947. There are many miniature paintings
from different
2017
regions of India 2018
. The gallery has paintings
2019

and sculptures of Goan and Indian artists such as R.

Chimulkar , F. N. Souza, S. H. Raza, M. F. Hussain, K. H.
Ara and many more which have been borrowed from the
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

Kala Academy and Institute of Menezes Braganza.