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The Alappuzha port museum being arrange as a part of the Alappuzha heritage venture is nearing completion.
It will showcase the State’s wealthy maritime historical past, particularly the story of the Alappuzha port, together with its formation, development as a business hub of the erstwhile State of Travancore, and the decline in the direction of the fag finish of the twentieth century.
The museum is about up by renovating the previous port workplace and godowns connected to it close to the Alappuzha seashore. “Alappuzha port will not make a comeback. But through the museum, we can relive the glory days. The renovation of the buildings will be completed in two months and the museum will be opened to the public in February 2021,” says Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac.
According to P.M. Noushad, managing director, Muziris Spice Route Heritage Project, the museum may have particulars of all historic ports that existed within the State. Artefacts from nations that had commerce hyperlinks with the State by means of the traditional ports and supplies collected from the port websites shall be exhibited.
Besides, miniature fashions of essential ships that had referred to as on the Alappuzha port together with fashions of boats and different supplies used shall be displayed on the museum. The functioning of the Alappuzha port and experiences of its employees shall be recreated with the assistance of pictures and movies. Those visiting the museum can have an interactive expertise — with the assistance of augmented actuality — travelling with Thomas Norton, a missionary who sailed from Plymouth in England to the State in 1816.
An actual ship shall be put in on the seashore. “The Indian Navy has promised to provide a ship. We hope the ship will reach Kochi by next month. From there, it will be brought to Alappuzha. The last time a ship came to Alappuzha port was in 1989,” Dr. Isaac says.
₹5.6-crore venture
By displaying paperwork and photogrpahs, the museum shall be a treasure trove of details about the State’s maritime historical past, ports, personalities, and so forth.
The museum is preparing below the steering of Benny Kuriakose, a conservation architect, at a value of ₹5.6 crore.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will launch varied works of the museum, together with supplies to be displayed, designing, and electrification, on November 3. The Chief Minister will even inaugurate completion/ renovation work of assorted different tasks below the Alappuzha heritage venture on the perform.
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