Kolkata: Indian Museum, which is still closed on Monday for maintenance, here will remain open on the day for special children.
This initiative will be kickstart on Monday with autistic children.
Large paintings and textile & decorative art galleries will be used for their workshops.
After that, the archaeological gallery will be removed for special children.
This Timesview is a great initiative, comes as done after plans to make institutions more accessible to disturbed visibility people.
Other old institutes must advance with more plans so that the city becomes more inclusive in the true sense.
“This is an effort for us to be more inclusive.
These children are very special, very sensitive and feel helpless in exposure to the crowd and noise.
We will try to learn their needs to adjust to their requirements.
Hopefully, we will Meet their expectations, “said the Indian Museum director Arijit Dutta Chowdhury.
“Artistic and autistic only have a wrong translation of two letters.
Autistic children tend to be on artistic expression.
This is why we open the museum for these special children to experience space with all my heart and express themselves through their artistic expression.
We will Give them everything to draw.
But there are no hard and fast rules, they can return to their homes and draw.
Every artwork will be evaluated by art therapists to find a way out because it relies them from stress and mental suffering, “Arnab Basu said, Responsible for the museum art section and the initiative curator.
“The world of autistic children is completely different from us.
Art is a channel to express their sadness, despair, and dreams.
Their IQ level is very high and they often read the minds of people around them accurately,” said Jyotisubhro Das from Institute of Tropical Medicines, a mother of an autistic child.
This is a very encouraging initiative by IM to include these children on their way, he added.
Shampa Sengupta, a trained art therapist for autistic children, said, “Art is the best way to open the door of communication for these children.
They are lacking in the art of communication in conventional ways.
That is why they understand us, but we do not understand it.
“The Indian Museum also takes a giant leap by developing a 3D representation of each art object so that these children can touch them and feel and experience amazing museum collections.
“These children understand everything by touching.
If they cannot touch them, their experience remains incomplete.
Braille text does not make sense if they cannot touch the object and lift itself to the artistic realm,” said Basu.