Hi Ian,

 

Partition is being marked in museums, I’m not sure how much it has been emphasised as a national issue for culture to address, but here are some examples of individual projects:

 

Bradford Peace Museum:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/analysis/seventy-years-on-the-untold-stories-from-the-partition-of-india-1-8564548

 

Sampad:

http://sampad.org.uk/project/the-partition-trail-voice-of-1947/

 

Migration Museum:

http://www.migrationmuseum.org/nations-divided-how-to-teach-the-history-of-partition/

 

Lowry Museum:

http://mif.co.uk/mif17-events/home1947/

 

Manchester Museum:

http://citizen.britishmuseum.org/manchester-museum/

 

HLF:

https://www.hlf.org.uk/our-projects/1947-partition-project

 

Science Museum:

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/Plan_your_visit/exhibitions/illuminating-india

 

I would also recommend getting touch with New Walk Museum, Leicester.  Their website is the council website so they don’t show details of current projects, but they’ve worked with Leicester’s South Asian communities quite a bit, so they may be doing so for this.

 

If you want to compare the British response to that in India, Amritsar has founded a whole new museum on the topic:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/after-nearly-70-years-india-pakistan-partition-gets-museum-180961682/

 

 

Hope this helps!

 

All the best,

Holly

 

 

 

Have museum services been marking Indian Partition? Have their been any exhibitions, learning events about this turning point in history, that is passing out of living memory?

 

Ian Fraser, ACR

Conservator

Leeds Museums and Galleries

Temple Newsam House

Leeds  LS15 0AE

 

 

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