The role of Government Museum, Chennai, in creating awareness and imparting knowledge to the society about our rich cultural heritage through its excellent exhibits, has added a new dimension to it and as such it is regarded as a unique Institution with considerable amount of credibility and respect.
This Museum extends its function of interpretation to educate the masses informally. Museum through its exhibits make use of sensory perceptions-sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. This sensory approach is often enjoyable and entertaining. Artefacts in a museum's collection are expressions of the human experience and concretisation of human ideas. Uses of artefacts rather than of words, gives people a deeper level of knowledge about themselves and world around them."
Since 1970, Museums are being considered as major cultural and educational institutions supplementing formal education and serving as important cultural centres for the community. A living museum of today, Government Museum, Chennai has also to discharge its important function of co-operation with the people, with whose support the future of the museum is closely aligned.
Apart from the skill, patience and laborious work involved in the collection, preservation, display, arrangement and interpretation of the exhibits in the public galleries, a great deal of effort has been placed on various other activities such as building up of a substantial reserve, for research and reference purposes, systematic researches on various groups of objects/specimens, publication of the results of these researches in a series of bulletins/books and various kinds of educational services which enhance the prestige of the Museum in the eyes of the Public.
The cute and useful handbook on the Geology Gallery brings out in a delightful manner the salient features and importance of the geological processes, minerals, rocks and fossils. To enrich the contents, additional information on the geological history of India, mineral resources of Tamil Nadu has also been included to increase reading happiness.
Today we live in a time when the Earth and its inhabitants face innumerable challenges and even threats. The climate change is being caused by unlimited anthropometric activity. Earth scientists are seized of this problem and will play a key role in finding viable solutions. We are also under constrain to develop new sources of energy that will have minimal impact on climate, locate new sources of metals and other mineral resources as known sources are getting depleted at quicker pace than expected and determine how the crowded Earth can sustain life and avoid serious threats and disasters such as volcanic eruption, earthquakes, landslides, floods etc. These are just a few of the problems where solutions depend upon a deep understanding of Earth science.
This handbook has been prepared, to create awareness among the visitors/public on the significance and importance of the earth science. This book will help the visitors to acquire better understanding of the geological hazards, and to easily learn about the rocks and minerals, through brief descriptions and narrations.
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