ABOUT
The Center for Heritage Studies, Chandernagore College, has taken the initiative for the cureation of this museum which not
only pays homage to the revolutionaries but also showcase the socio-cultural and political heritage of the city of Chandernagore College.
The Chandernagore College Museum is appropriately location in the Heritage Building of Chandernagore College, an approximately 200 year
old French structure which had been recognised as heritage monument by the West Bengal Heritage Commission.
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Sections of the Museum
The museum is divided into five rooms with their own specific thematic focus.
The First Room contains information displaying a brief trajectory of the city's evolution. They are accompanied by a series of
photographs which detail the journey of the city from its earliest beginnings to its present state, the architectural heritage of
the city, including monuments declared as heritage properties by the West Bengal Heritage Commission, as well as historical sites
that have now become extinct. The photographs depict both certain invariant features of the city as well as changes across time.
The illustrations in this room also portray the relationships of different luminaries of Bengal with the city of Chandernagore.
The Second Room pays homage to the memory of the revolutionaries like I€anailal Datta, Makhanlal Ghoshal, Motilal Roy and
several others who were imprisoned or executed through a combination of displays, installations, photographs, sculptures and
ceramic relief work of the revolutionaries.
Room Three acts as a repository of archival documents which showcase the diverse aspects of revolutionary activities emanating
from Chandernagore.
Room Four hosts a traditional loom and weaving machine related with the extinct art of weaving associated with Forashdanga.
There are also illustrations of Chandernagore’s socio-cultuialhistoty and the indigenous traditions of physical exercises
and combat sports which had flourished in Chandernagore, in defiance of colonial stereotypes of sedentary lifestyle and
effeminacy.Since the revolutionaries often used boats to ferry their arms and ammunitions, this room also contains a
smalllocally made wooden boat, generahy used by fishermen.
The Fifth Room focuses on archival references to the present Chandernagore College, consisting of the twenty-three years
long closure of the College Dupleix and Shri Charu Chandra Roy, erstwhile Deputy Director of the college. The expansion
and evolution of Chandernagore College from the erstwhile College Dupleix is also conceptualised in this room.
Artists
Several individuals have played a crucial role in the actualisation of the distinctiveness of Chandernagore College
through the establishment of the Chandernagore College Museum. We acknowledge the valuable contributions of the
following personalities without whose untiring efforts, labour and expertise, the curation of the Chandernagore College
Mesuem would not have been possible.
Shri Biswanath Bandyopadhyay
, Historian
Shri Saibal Das
, Shadow Hunter
Shri Sandip Pal
, Museum Curator
Shri Samir Roy
, Painter and Sculptor
Shri Jayanta Paul
, Sculptor
Shri Parthapratim Saha
, Painter, Restorer and Designer
Shri Saikat Neogy
, Archivist
Shri Soumobrata Dasgupta
, Archivist
Shri Rabindranath Dey
, Architectural Model Builder
Shri Ranajit Koley
, Interior Designer
Shri Debasish Kundu
, Traditional Weaver
Shri Rupak Neogy
, Illustrator
Shri Rudrajo Ghosh
, Aspiring Photographer
Shri Avik Chattopadhyay
, Writer
Shri Prantik Koley
, Emerging Interior Designer
Smt. Sukanya Mukherjee Neogy
, Teacher of St. Joseph's Convent, Chandannagar
Museum Campus Tour
Welcome to the virtual tour of Chandernagore College Museum. Please click on each of the blocks below to glimpse the 360oview of the
college.
Tangible & Intangible heritage of Chandannagar
Revolutionaries associated with College & Chandannagar
Documentary evidence of freedom movement of India
