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Loka - The Folk Museum
Location:
Janapada Loka - The Folk Museum,
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Website: http://www.janapadaloka.org/
Janapada Loka or "Folk world" is an institution that is dedicated to preserving and propagating the rural folk culture of Karnataka. It is a part of the Karnataka Janapada Parishat[1] and is situated in Ramanagara district on the Bangalore-Mysore highway.
It
is set up on a 15-acre (61,000 m2) campus, where rural milieus from Karnataka
have been recreated. It also houses a wide array of rural artifacts depicting
the essence of folk literature, music, dance, festivals, sculpture and
lifestyle. It is the brainchild of the folklore enthusiast, the late H. L. Nage
Gowda.
Janapada
Loka provides an opportunity for rural artisans,musicians and craftspeople to
showcase their art[2] and provides a platform for marketing these works of art.
Books, DVDs and CDs relating folk arts are also sold. The main attraction of
Janapada Loka is the folks arts museum,which plays host to artefacts belonging
to the folk culture, along with different instruments of music, agriculture and
farming.[3]
On
the Janapada Loka campus, there are multiple sculptures related to the folk
culture of rural Karnataka, which display the artists keen eye for detail.
It
provides an opportunity to see the folk traditions of Karnataka in a single
place, while promoting and preserving the folk culture......Wikipedia >>
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