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INTACH College Heritage Volunteer Training Workshop 2022

The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) was founded in 1984 in New Delhi with the vision to spearhead heritage awareness and conservation in India. Today INTACH is recognized as one of the world’s largest heritage organizations, with over 190 Chapters across the Country. In the past 31 years INTACH has pioneered the conservation and preservation of not just our natural and built heritage but intangible heritage as well. Headquartered in New Delhi, it operates through various divisions such as Architectural Heritage, Natural Heritage, Material Heritage, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Heritage Education and Communication Services (HECS), Crafts and Community Cell, Chapters, INTACH Heritage Academy, Heritage Tourism, Listing Cell and Library, Archives and Documentation Centre. The IPCW has been closely associated with the INTACH, which is a regular source for inspiring student internships in fields of conservation and museology.

A College Heritage Volunteer Training Workshop was organised at INTACH, New Delhi on 15th March 2022 as part of the INTACH’s Heritage Education Programme. Supported and endorsed by the Ministry of Culture (Government of India), the Programme endeavours to sensitize college students to protect heritage and train them to become pioneers in leading a nation -wide movement for heritage preservation .

Six students of B.A. History Honours Semester VI, Aahee Sapru, Aatika Fareed, Dipanwita Das, ,Divya Choudhary, Rimjhim Mishra, Subiya Asad and Dr. Asha Shukla Choubey, as faculty representative participated in the workshop.

The workshop was conducted over five sessions interspersed with group activities of students. The session was inaugurated with a film on INTACH followed by an introductory talk on the concept and types of heritage by Ms. Purnima Datt, Principal Director of Heritage Education and Communication Service (HECS), INTACH. The resource persons for the workshop included Dr. Swapna Liddle, Convenor INTACH Delhi Chapter who made an interesting presentation on the historic precincts of Delhi. Professor Narayani Gupta, historian and former Director, INTACH Documentation Centre, gave her presentation and interacted via video conferencing. Dr. Padma Rohilla, Director, INTACH Conservation Institute initiated the students into understanding material heritage through a stimulating visit to the conservation laboratories, including those for fabric restoration and painting preservation.