Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Director General of the Bihar Museum, Patna, Anjani Kumar Singh has said that increasing influence of technology is leading to a decline in the number of visitors to museums. This has emerged as a new challenge, he added.

Singh who is former chief secretary of Bihar, was speaking on ‘Re-imagining Museums: The Vision Behind the Bihar Museum’ under a folk art exhibition ‘Sita: the daughter of Bihar’ at Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) in the city on Tuesday.

He also explained the historical background of the division of collections between the Patna Museum and the Bihar Museum, saying that the Patna Museum was a museum of the colonial era, while the Bihar Museum was developed as a new cultural symbol with a modern perspective.

He explained that

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