A MUSEUM
FOR
EVERYONE
The Williamson Sangma State Museum is a museum where the relationship between the objects and our visitors is accorded with primary importance. The objects and ambience within the walls of the museum encourages visitors to interact with them sensorily, through sight, sound and direct touch. Here, objects attain a new meaning by virtue of people’s interaction with them, apart from their already existing socio-historical, economic, religious and anthropological meanings.
LEARN SOMETHING NEW AT THE MUSEUM
These objects at the Williamson Sangma Meghalaya State Museum, which are Meghalaya-centric, belong to communities in Meghalaya and tell their unique narratives, which invite plural engagements with people from the same communities, as well as people from outside of Meghalaya. This concept of participation or the immediate interaction between individuals and objects reorients our response to such institutions of memory and culture and seeks to establish a novel exercise of disseminating cultural and historical impact.