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Table of Contents
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Tourist footfall............................................................................................ 11
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Cost estimation........................................................................................... 19
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Promotional activities..................................................................................19
List of figure
Figure 1Exiting exhibition centre, Dwarka & Dwarka city museum under construction..................6
Figure 2 Vegetable market around Dwarkadhish temple.........................................................7
Figure 3Exhibition in the information centre.......................................................................9
Figure 4 Plan for the existing tourist information cum exhibition centre.....................................9
Figure 5 Location and surroundings of the exhibition Centre.................................................10
Figure 6 Architecture of the information cum exhibition centre..............................................10
Figure 7 Museum under construction in Dwarka................................................................12
Figure 8 Location of surroundings, Dwarka......................................................................13
Figure 9 Museum under construction, Dwarka..................................................................13
Figure 10 Prepared views of the galleries and the museum in Dwarka.....................................17
List of Maps
Map 1Location of the exhibition centres and museums in Dwarka............................................6
Map 2 Location map for existing information cum exhibition centre.........................................7
Map 3 Location of new city museum Dwarka...................................................................12
Map 4 Site of the museum , Dwarka............................................................................... 15
Map 5 Ground floor plan............................................................................................. 16
Map 6 First floor plan................................................................................................. 16
Map 7 Second floor plan............................................................................................. 17
List of tables
Table 1 Area program for information cum exhibition centre...................................................8
Table 2 Area program for Dwarka city museum.................................................................14
Introduction
The ancient city of Dwarka is located on the extreme West Coast of India. The city is one of the
Chardhams of the Hindu pilgrim circuit. The history of the city dates back to mythological periods
having associations with lord Krishna. It has rich religious and cultural significance in the Hindu
religion because of its association with Lord Krishna. This great religious, historic, architectural,
cultural and associational values attracts tourists to Dwarka and its surroundings.
The city of Dwarka, therefore needs a city museum to acknowledge, integrate and built awareness
among people for the heritage of the city and its surroundings. The city museum and the exhibitions
will help the local community to foster a sense of belonging for their assets and enable them to feel an
integral part of the heritage. The museum will also help the floating population in Building awareness
about the heritage of the region and informing them about the art, architecture and culture of Dwarka.
The education on heritage to the local population will also help in developing responsiveness among
the host population thus generating local economy.
Dwarka has rich cultural significance that exists in form of time, place and people .Dwarka is rich in
architectural heritage as it has large number of temples from 12 th-15th century, large number of water
structures in form of kunds, sarovars and Ghats etc. The city was under marine archaeological
excavations which has led to a large number of explorations in the region. (2500 to 1500 BCE). ).The
oldest excavations found in the region belong to the Harappa period, demonstrating it as a trading
dockyard. The people in Dwarka and the sub region are involved in the local art, called the rayka art
which is in the form of hand embroidery carried out on clothing material. The exhibition in the
museum will help in promotional of the local art and architecture in the region and therefore making it
more significant.
Urban Management Centre aims to prepare a report for the evaluation of the existing museums in
Dwarka under the city HRIDAY plan. The intention of the report is to assess the condition of the
existing museums in the city and provide recommendations and a renovation plan for the museums so
that they can be used efficiently.
The city HRIDAY plan intends to analyse the following for the improvements of museums in the city
Dwarka has a tourist information cum exhibition centre that lies in the historic core of the city. The
information centre is inadequate to exhibit the large heritage of Dwarka. Therefore, in order to
showcase the vast heritage of Dwarka there is a proposal for a new city museum by the state
department of museum Gujarat. The museum is under construction and is expected to get completed
by 2017. The site surveys and analysis done by Urban Management centre will provide
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Space
Exhibition hall
Administrative space
utilities
Area
57 sq. m
23sq. m
10 sq. m
The exhibitions in the Centre are in the form of permanent displays with no space for temporary and
short term exhibitions. There are no provision for audio visual presentations and theatre that can show
small documentary and films on the history of Dwarka. There artefacts and information panels do not
have proper lighting that makes it difficult for the handicapped and senior citizens to read the
information panels.
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Applicable bylaws
Dwarka being a municipality, the bylaws are guided by the district collectorate. A museum is an
institutional building as per the development plan of Dwarka 2018. The site follows institutional
building byelaws with a minimum FSI of 1.2 and minimum ground coverage of 40% of the total site
area.
The building has a permissible building height of 30m from the ground .The building is permitted to
have a basement with minimum height of 2 meters. Since the new building is not surrounded by any
ASI protected heritage structure there are no heritage byelaws applicable on site. The under
construction museum building follows the development byelaws applicable on site.
Other features
The Museum building is under construction, with the building structure complete on the ground and
the first floor. The finishes on the building faade are under the state of implementation.
The exhibitions and the display in the museum will be brought from the museums of Surat, Kutch,
and Gandhi Nagar etc. The artefacts found as a part of marine archaeology in Dwarka and the
surroundings are available with National Institute of Oceanography, Goa. The Department of museum
will apply the institute for the excavated artefacts and install them in the gallery of marine
archaeology. A number of galleries have need identified for variety of artefacts to be placed.
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Requirement
Available Land Area
Built up on ground
Positive spaces
Circulation
Entrance lobby/Tourist Information Centre
Reception
Emporiums and Boutiques
Exhibition spaces (Paths)
Art Galleries/Audio Visual
Path Of History
Path of marine history marine archaeology and
marine ecology
Cultural path : rural heritage and handicraft
Mythological inheritance centre
cafeteria
Service and utility
Storage spaces
Library as potential expansion in basement: adult
section and children section
Open space
Landscape court
Children play area
Parking
Total area
3600 sq.mt.
1500 sq.mt
4000 sq.mt.
1200 sq.mt. (Max 20%)
100 sq.mt.
20 sq.mt.
100 sq.mt
2000 sq.mt
1000 sq.mt
100 to 150 sq.mt.
100 to 150 sq.mt
100 to 150 sq.mt
300 sq.mt.
500 sq.mt
50 sq.mt.
60 sq.mt.
400 sq.mt.
1500 sq.mt.
30 sq.mt.
150 sq.mt.
50 sq.mt.
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2.3. Architecture and design concept for the museum
The concept of the museum was based on the notion of time. The galleries are designed so as to
take people through the different periods of history Dwarka has seen in the past. Heritage of Dwarka
is to be perceived as a living dynamics of its context. An effort has been made towards achieving a
morphisms of spaces as a display corridor which can be conceived through time and technology. The
building is designed so as to conceive a space displaying the past, present and future and representing
an interesting dialect between the built vocabularies in form of spaces.
For the better planning and design of the museum the sun movements were studied and a sense of
micro environment was carried out in order to have better daylight and interaction spaces in the
museum. The wind as a dynamics of nature and an integrated part of the micro-environment is well
integrated in the planning. The intention was to regulate the wind capturing in order to achieve a
breeze in key spaces within which the visitors can move easily.The planning efforts were made to
generate a museum space of centuries captured in time of sequence, notion of transitions and Vermont
of pauses one experiences. The museum was designed to have good circulation patterns, services,
utilities and micro environment needs.
The exhibition galleries were designed to reflect the historical senses by the use of technology in the
exhibitions. The building intends to use of local material for construction with a sensibility of the
contemporary existence.
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first floor activities
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Historic display level 1
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Historic display level 2
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Historic display level 3
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Cultural area display
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Library and research
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Administrative area
Second floors
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Marine archaeology section
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terrace
Figure 10 Prepared views of the galleries and the museum in Dwarka
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Entrance and the open plaza: The entrance has a ticketing counter for the maintenance and
revenue generation. The museum has the security check for the people which leads visitors to central
point where visitors can gather information and supervised by the member of staff to answer
enquiries. The open plaza also acts as a common interaction space for informal activities.
Recommendations by HCA
The central plaza must incorporate gallery maps, events leaflets and information desks that has staff to
guide people to the museum information and display galleries. The museum should also incorporate
cloak room for the luggage and eatables carried by the victors for their comfort and safety and
security of the museum.
Ramps: The museum has ramp facilities for physically handicapped movement. These are provided
at the entrance and within the floors for the movement of physically handicapped people. The
building has a ramp that takes visitors from ground to the first floor.
The provision of ramp and lift from the first to the second floor for the movement of physically
handicapped people to the marine archaeology gallery should be incorporated.
Displays: The museum has a proposal for informal exhibitions on the ground floor. Historical and
cultural display galleries on the first and marine archaeology on the second floor. The museum also
has provision for handicraft shop for the display of local art and craft of Dwarka. There is a provision
of open sunken court for the temporary display of artefacts in the open court.
Signage to and in the museum: At present there are no signage to the museum as it is in the
construction stage. There is a need of a proper signage plan in and around the museum for the
direction to the museum and movement of the people inside the museum. Pocket size maps to be
made available to the people at the museum entrance for ease in movement.
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Cost estimation
The project cost was initially INR 261 lakh which is revised to INR 492 lakh and is fully funded by
the Department of Museum, Gujarat.