State Museum (Williamson Sangma Museum)
Museums are repositories of cultural, historical, technical, industrial or other kinds of materials for preservation against decay and for transmission to posterity...
More Galleries have been set up in the State Museum (now known as Williamson Sangma Museum)...
Progress and Development:
- Meghalaya State Museum, Shillong was established in 1975...
- State Museum continues to collect valuable exhibits, rare articles, and antiques...
- District Museum at Tura was opened on 18th August, 1989...
- State and District Museums are ethnographical, also known as multipurpose Museums...
The main purposes of an ethnographic Museum are:
- To serve as a research institution...
- To afford opportunities to students...
- To endow the common people with knowledge...
The activities of the State Museum are increasing...