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Muziris Heritage Project Museums
KERALA JEWS HISTORY MUSEUM
One among the largest synagogues in Kerala, the Paravur Synagogue built in 1615, now features a museum of early Jewish life in Kerala.
KERALA JEWS LIFE STYLE MUSEUM
Constructed in the 17th century, the Chendamangalam Synagogue, one of the oldest synagogues in Kerala now houses a museum of early Jewish life.
PALIAM PALACE MUSEUM
The traditional home of Paliathu Achans, Paliam Kovilakam a two storey building far ahead of its times now houses a museum on Kerala history.
PALIAM NALUKETTU MUSEUM
Paliam Nalukettu, a typical self contained Malayali house has been converted into Kerala Lifestyle Museum featuring a choicest collection of articles.
SAHODARAN AYYAPPAN MUSEUM
The Sahodaran Ayyappan Museum is a fresh combination of interactive and traditional exhibitions representing a truly authentic experience.
ABDUL RAHMAN SAHIB MUSEUM
This museum showcases the sacrifices and achievements of Mohammed Abdul Rahman Sahib as a social reformer as well as freedom fighter.
KESARI BALAKRISHNA MUSEUM
This is the erstwhile home of Kesari Balakrisha Pillai situated on the back street of North Paravur where he lived and worked from 1943 to 1960.
ISLAMIC HISTORY MUSEUM
The Islamic History Museum has been set up in the Cheraman Juma Masjid complex.
Other Museums
The museums being planned for the renaissance phase of the Muziris Heritage Project are the kind to be included among the 'new generation museums' of the world. The museums in the Paravur - Kodungallur region of Kerala will create an ideal learning environment especially for students of history and archaeology.
- Site Museum in Pattanam,
- Museum on Christian Religious Art & Traditional in North Paravur,
- Syrian Christian History Museum in Kodungallur,
- Museum on Handlooms at Chendamangalam,
- the Traditional Art Forms Performance Centre,
- Paliam Oottupura and
- the Kerala Maritime Museum are the upcoming museums.
The proposed museums include
- Museum of Aquatic Life in Vadakkekkara,
- Museum of Kerala Literature in Kodungallur and
- a Museum on Coir and Inland Fishing.
Digital Archiving Islamic tradition of Kerala
https://www.muzirisheritage.org/upload/news-letter/january-2021-english.pdf#page=6
This project is supposed to be the first of its kind in Kerala archiving the historical documents, visuals and sounds of a particular community and preparing metadata out of it.The project involves digitization of rare documents related mainly to the trans-regional trade, cultural and religious activities of Muslims of Kerala preserved in mosque libraries and personal or family collections. These documents, kept mostly in archives, mosque libraries and family collections in various places of Kerala, shed lights on people, ideas, goods, networks of traders and scholars, texts, technologies which were in constant motion all across the Indian Ocean region. The themes range from maritime trade, travel, trans-regional networks of traders and scholars and technology transfer to exchange of cultures and diasporic settlements of Arabs on the South-Western coasts of India.
Written mainly in four languages-Arabic, Persian, Arabic-Malayalam and Malayalam-these materials cover a wide variety of subjects like philosophy, medicine, theology, maritime trade, travel etc.
Almost 1,00,000 documents have already been digitized as a part of this project. The project also involves audio-visual documentation of Muslim food, Islamic architecture, dress, Muslim art forms, rituals, customs and life cycle events.
The project also involves archiving the rare photographs of early migrants from the Malabar to the Gulf countries and Ceylon.
Collection Contains
1. Digitized rare manuscripts
2. Videos of art forms, rituals, customs, lifecycle events etc.
3. Videos of Mosques, Islamic architecture, food, medicine, dress etc.
4. Photographs of early migrants to the Gulf and Ceylon.
5. Audio files of old MappilaPattu
Digitization is the best method for the preservation of the archival data and it allows putting less strain on the original document. Dr. Jasimudeen, Librarian at St Stephen's College, Uzhavoor and Dr. Midhun C Sekhar, Museum Manger coordinated the final work. Postgraduate (Library Science) students from Feroke College, Kozhikkodu, St Stephen's College, Uzhavoor and S B College Changanassery participated in the workshop.
