Ponniyin Selvan Varalaatru Peravai

Is any one visited sharma heritage museum. i would like to visit
durind my chennais visit this time.

The Sharma Centre for Heritage Education

28 I Main Road, C.I.T Colony, Chennai 600004, Tamil Nadu, India

http://www.sharmaheritage.com/index.htm

The Sharma Children's Museum, Chennai
The Sharma Children's Museum was established on 19th of February
1999, and at present is housed at the Ellen Sharma Memorial
Matriculation School. This is a rural school situated at
Sholinganallore, 30 km outside Chennai, which provides free and
subsidised education to children from the neighbouring industrial
areas and villages and to Tibetan refugees; and also caters to
economically well-off children from cities in India and abroad
(Souvenir, Children's Garden School 1997).

The museum was planned as an experiment in school education; a small
step to enable children to have fun while learning about the past.
It aims at creating an innovative and informative museum environment
where:

(a) children can develop an awareness of Indian heritage; (b) a
spirit of enquiry, wonder and imagination is stimulated and
sustained; (c) archaeology is used as tool to exercise skills in
thinking children; (d) the past can be related to issues in daily
life; (e) archaeological objects are used to teach principles of
other social and physical sciences; (f)children are made aware of
people (both belonging to past and present cultures) having different
ways of life and belief systems; (g) local heritage issues are
stressed; and (h) objects in the museum are used as a resource base
for teachers for all disciplines taught in the school syllabus.



We strongly focus on addressing groups of children who would
otherwise have no access to museums, educational products, T.V.
programs and books. Our programs are in English and Tamil. Since
inception we have conducted programs for more than 10,000 children
from Chennai and suburbs and from nearby villages. All programs for
underprivileged children are free.