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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF HERITAGE

20th July, 2021 Culture

Context

  • The government has decided to set up the ‘Indian Institute of Heritage’ at Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar.

 

About

  • The Institute is being set up as Deemed to be University by integrating
  • Institute of Archaeology (Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya Institute of Archaeology),
  • School of Archival Studies under National Archives of India, New Delhi,
  • the National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property (NRLC), Lucknow,
  • National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and
  • Museology (NMICHM) andAcademic Wing of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi.
  • These shall become various schools of Institute. Indian Institute of Heritage will be a world-class university that would focus on the conservation and research in India’s rich tangible heritage, while offering research, development and dissemination of knowledge associated with heritage.

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1736840