Browsing Tag: Museum

Propagating Sikh history through sculptures for the past 12 years, the Sikh museum here now faces threat of demolition.

The Prime Minister of India's announcement that the Gadar Memorial in San Francisco will be upgraded into a “functional museum and library with a sculpture to honor the Gadari Babas, the heroes of the great movement” is a great welcome news.

Satwinder Bains doesn’t want the Sikh history to disappear.

The Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) has decided to install a portrait of Shaheed Jaspal Singh (Gurdaspur) at the Central Sikh Museum located at the Harmandir Sahib complex.

The verdant township of Anandpur Sahib, at the foothills of the Shivaliks in Punjab, has always drawn tourists by the hordes. But this time, it is not just the historic gurdwaras that is drawing them to one of the most sacred places for the Sikh community.

Lieutenant-Governor Steven Point was in Abbotsford on Saturday to officially open the Sikh Heritage Museum, the first of its kind in Canada, at the historic Gur Sikh Gurdwara on South Fraser Way.

Lieutenant-Governor Steven Point officially opened the Sikh Heritage Museum, the first of its kind in Canada, at the historic Gur Sikh Gurdwara on South Fraser Way.

It’s treasure that has been locked away in a damp room.

Members of Vancouver's Sikh community gathered Sunday at the Ross Street Temple to applaud the announcement of federal funding for two projects commemorating the 1914 Komagata Maru incident in which 376 immigrants from the Punjab were refused entry to Canada.

When Canada’s first Multimedia Sikh Museum opened at Ontario Khalsa Darbar in Mississauga last Sunday, it offered clickable passage into more than 500 years of Sikhism. “Yes, it is your one-stop window into the past, present and future of the Sikhs," says Raghbir Bains, who has spent almost 25 years on the project.

“For all of us at the museum these are extremely exciting times; we have never carried out a project like this before, but we feel this armour is of such cultural and historic importance it warrants the very best attention we can give.”

Groups of students visit the Hall of Fame as a part of the educational program. However, they do not learn the story of the First Asian-American Congressman who was truly a trailblazer. Our future generations have a lot to learn from his life-story. They will receive much inspiration from his legacy. He richly deserves to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Purewal said that while the Museum would be launched on November 23 its grand opening would be done in the month of February next year and they were arranging that somebody from the Royal family of England would attend the occasion.

Amongst the treasures in London’s British Library lie a remarkable collection of personal effects that tell an extraordinary story from the last days of Sikh sovereignty in Punjab.