The completion of 151 years of the Government Museum, Chennai is a great event that has been fittingly celebrated with a series of events. Its first International Seminar was held in December, 2001. A grand function in which the President of India, the Governor, the Chief Minister, the Minister for Education and other Ministers, the Chief Secretary in charge, diplomats, scholars, museologists and prominent citizens participated in June, 2003 was the pièce de resistance. This was to inaugurate the refurbished and new galleries, the conserved heritage Museum Theatre and compound wall as well as to release the record number of new publications brought out by the museum on one occasion (probably for any museum in the world). All the heritage buildings and the landscaped campus have been lit by façade and indirect lighting,
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