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Amritsar, meaning 'pool of nectar', is a cultural hub with the Golden Temple. The Golden Temple is a major attraction.
A worker sorts through photographs, newspaper clippings and other material that will cover the walls at the Partition Museum in Amritsar, India, 20 miles from the border with Pakistan.
The museum is part of the newly inaugurated Heritage Street at Amritsar, which starts at the Golden Temple and ends at the Town Hall. People have also contributed objects and documents to the Museum.
Standing inside Amritsar’s Town Hall, where the Partition Museum had just opened, I felt overwhelmed. On the wall in front of me were photographs taken by Margaret Bourke-White in 1947, brutal ...
A museum documenting the trauma of the 1947 Partition has collected rare memorabilia of the largest mass migration in history, including thousands of sketches by the commander of a refugee camp.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today visited the Partition Museum, dedicated to the memory of the partition of India in 1947, at Town Hall in Amritsar along with his ministers and MPs.
Amritsar, Feb 21 (PTI) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today visited the Partition Museum, dedicated to the memory of the partition of India in 1947, at Town Hall in Amritsar along with his ...
On the 70th anniversary of the Partition, the facility will open in the old town hall in Amritsar in Punjab, the scene of much of the devastation. The official opening is Thursday. Amar Kapoor kept a ...
The BGTW is a community of more than 250 accredited writers, photographers, bloggers and broadcasters. The Partition Museum was nominated by travel writer, editor and BGTW member Meera Dattani.
Amritsar, July 3 The Partition Museum has been shortlisted for the 2020 Museums + Heritage Awards for showcasing “Jallianwala Bagh 1919: Punjab Under Siege” in association with the Manchester ...
Delhi will get it’s first museum dedicated to the Partition of India in 1947 after the Delhi Government decided to convert the Mughal-era Dara Shikoh Library building into a 1947 Partition Museum.
Amritsar, Aug 17 (IANS) Partition Museum, a first-of-its-kind in the world, was inaugurated here on Thursday as a tribute to the millions who perished as well as others who survived but lost their ...