The renovated Bapu Museum is all set for re-opening by Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, on Thursday.
“Using latest technologies like Virtual and Augmented Reality, digital display panel and an immersive projection theatre, we have transformed the museum into an interactive space,” said G. Vani Mohan, Commissioner, Archaeology and Museums, at a press conference on Wednesday.
She said that the 1,500 antiquities at the museum, belonging to different eras from 10,00,000 BC to the 19th century, would be used to promote heritage and culture education. The displays include pre, proto and early historical objects, Jain and Buddha sculptures, pottery, plaques, beads and bangles, iron implements, coins, inscriptions, textiles, paintings and celadon ware, among other things.
The nine galleries are categorised under pre- and early historic gallery, Jain and Buddhist gallery, Hindu…