Only a few organised efforts have been made to preserve memories of partition of united India. Notable among these are listed below:
1. Museum of Peace
The Museum of Peace at the Attari-Wagah, Indo-Pak border in Amritsar is a celebration of the common architectural, cultural and culinary heritage of pre-partition Punjab in general and Amritsar-Lahore in particular. Whenever Punjabis visit either side of the border, there is an unmistakable feeling that a part of the Punjabi psyche and soul resides in the other half. The Museum of Peace is dedicated to the yearning and pining of Punjabis on either side of the border to know about their brethren on the other side, and their immense pride and nostalgia in their common history, culture and traditions.
2. 1947 Partition Archive The 1947 Partition Archive is a non-profit non-governmental organisation dedicated to institutionalising the people's history of partition through:
1) Documenting, preserving and sharing eye witness accounts from all ethnic, religious and economic communities affected by the Partition of British India in 1947. 2) Collecting, preserving and sharing personal items and artifacts associated with the people's memory of the 1947 Partition.
3) Bringing knowledge of Partition into widespread public consciousness through i) creative and scholarly expression including but not limited to literature, film, theater, visual arts, other creative medium, and academic research ii) proactive world-wide primary education curricula, iii) traveling exhibits as well as physical 'Centers for Learning' designed to memorialize the people's history of Partition and serve the public for research and educational purposes.
3. The Partition Museum Project
The Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust (TAACHT) has recently, in October 2016, set up the world’s first Partition Museum, at Town Hall, Amritsar dedicated to the memories of partition of India-Pakistan during 1947. The Museum, open from Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., receives large numbers of visitors daily—from schoolchildren to Partition Survivors, from international tourists to village dwellers, from politicians to scholars. On some days, more than 1000 visitors have come to see the curtain raiser exhibition, which represents some of the highlights of the final Museum. The present Museum exhibition has been set up in the restored portion of Town Hall. The Town Hall is currently under restoration, and we are working towards inaugurating the second and last phase of the Museum by early 2017, in time for the 70th year of the Partition of India
1. Museum of Peace
The Museum of Peace at the Attari-Wagah, Indo-Pak border in Amritsar is a celebration of the common architectural, cultural and culinary heritage of pre-partition Punjab in general and Amritsar-Lahore in particular. Whenever Punjabis visit either side of the border, there is an unmistakable feeling that a part of the Punjabi psyche and soul resides in the other half. The Museum of Peace is dedicated to the yearning and pining of Punjabis on either side of the border to know about their brethren on the other side, and their immense pride and nostalgia in their common history, culture and traditions.
2. 1947 Partition Archive The 1947 Partition Archive is a non-profit non-governmental organisation dedicated to institutionalising the people's history of partition through:
1) Documenting, preserving and sharing eye witness accounts from all ethnic, religious and economic communities affected by the Partition of British India in 1947. 2) Collecting, preserving and sharing personal items and artifacts associated with the people's memory of the 1947 Partition.
3) Bringing knowledge of Partition into widespread public consciousness through i) creative and scholarly expression including but not limited to literature, film, theater, visual arts, other creative medium, and academic research ii) proactive world-wide primary education curricula, iii) traveling exhibits as well as physical 'Centers for Learning' designed to memorialize the people's history of Partition and serve the public for research and educational purposes.
3. The Partition Museum Project
The Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust (TAACHT) has recently, in October 2016, set up the world’s first Partition Museum, at Town Hall, Amritsar dedicated to the memories of partition of India-Pakistan during 1947. The Museum, open from Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., receives large numbers of visitors daily—from schoolchildren to Partition Survivors, from international tourists to village dwellers, from politicians to scholars. On some days, more than 1000 visitors have come to see the curtain raiser exhibition, which represents some of the highlights of the final Museum. The present Museum exhibition has been set up in the restored portion of Town Hall. The Town Hall is currently under restoration, and we are working towards inaugurating the second and last phase of the Museum by early 2017, in time for the 70th year of the Partition of India