MANGALURU: Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy will inaugurate the Manjusha Museum, a brainchild of Dr D Veerendra Heggade, the Pattadhikari of Shri Kshetra Dharmasthala at the Amruthavarshini Sabha Bhavana in Dharmasthala at 3 pm on Wednesday.
The museum, built at Rs 3 crore museum with 1.25 lakh square feet floor space houses about 60 per cent of Heggade’s antique collections of 26,000 articles. The items range from paleolithic and neolithic rocks to the manuscripts of the fifth century, religious artefacts of the 1500s (including the original temple chariot) and cameras of the last century. It also includes recent historical artefacts of the coastal areas.
Addressing mediapersons at Dharmasthala, Dr Heggade said the collection of historical and cultural artefacts from India and abroad was essential when modernisation made people embrace the ‘use and dispose’ culture.
The museum will be opened to the public at Rs 10 after the second week of November for all days of the year, he said.
The entry will be free for children below the age of 12. The collection of automobiles will be set up in a ‘car museum in Dharmasthala precincts, said Prime Consultancy and Designer’s Ritesh Sharma.