The Dr. Mangal Sain Museum (earlier, Haryana Rural Antique Museum) in

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, India is located inside the ''Gandhi Bhawan'' building of

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University is a public funded agricultural university located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is the biggest agricultural university in Asia. The university has of land (around at ma ...

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History

The museum construction started in 1975 1975
Kurukshetra
vol. 24, pp. 206. and was completed around 1978,1978
Haryana Review
Haryana Public Relations Department, vol. 12, pp.163. to preserve the vanishing antiques of rural Haryana.1987
Haryana District Gazetteers: Hisar
Haryana, pp.225.] The museum was extended with additional space in 2010.

Reconstruction

The reconstruction of the museum started in 2018 and was projected to finish by 2019 but completed in 2021. The museum now have a scale model of central complex of CCS HAU, a

Mixed reality Mixed reality (MR) is a term used to describe the merging of a real-world environment and a computer-generated one. Physical and virtual objects may co-exist in mixed reality environments and interact in real time. Mixed reality is largely synony ...

studio, different soil samples from Haryana, digital platform showcasing pioneering projects of HAU, traditional and folklores of Haryana, a library, and a lot more. The museum was inaugurated and opened for public by Governor of Haryana & Chancellor of CCS HAU Hon. Sh.

Bandaru Dattatreya Bandaru Dattatreya (born 12 June 1947) is an Indian politician serving as the current Governor of the State of Haryana since 2021. He was also the 20th Governor of Himachal Pradesh and was the Member of Lok Sabha for Secunderabad from 2014 to ...

along with Chief Minister Sh.

Manohar Lal Khattar Manohar Lal Khattar (born 05 May 1954) is an Indian politician serving as the 10th and current chief minister of Haryana. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a former RSS pracharak. He represents Karnal constituency in Haryan ...

in March 2022.

Departments and collections

The museum houses the collection of

antiquities Antiquities are objects from antiquity, especially the civilizations of the Mediterranean: the Classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, Ancient Egypt and the other Ancient Near Eastern cultures. Artifacts from earlier periods such as the Meso ...

showcasing development of agriculture and rural society in

Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ar ...

. The collection includes dresses, agricultural and farm tools and implements, rural tools and equipment, rural music instruments, Haryanvi folk dresses for men and women, farm vehicles, etc.

Exhibition hall

The ''Gandhi Bhawan'' building, that houses the extension education department of the university, also has

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for hosting

exhibition An exhibition, in the most general sense, is an organized presentation and display of a selection of items. In practice, exhibitions usually occur within a cultural or educational setting such as a museum, art gallery, park, library, exhibition ...

Gallery

Fletcher Bhawan of CCS HAU.jpg, Fletcher Bhawan of CCS HAU lies immediately north of museum. Indira_Gandhi_Auditorium,_Hisar.jpg, Indira Gandhi Auditorium lies immediately in the south-west corner of museum.

References

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