Mahatma Phule Vastu Sangrahalaya, Poona, Act, 1968

No: 18 Dated: Jun, 11 1968

THE MAHATMA PHULE VASTU SANGRAHALAYA, POONA, ACT, 1968

ACT No. XVIII OF 1968

    An Act to extend the activities of the Museum at Poona under the name of the Mahatma Phule Vastu Sangrahalaya, Poona, and to make better provision for the management and maintenance thereof.

    WHEREAS, it is expedient to extend the activities of the Museum now known as the Lord Reay Maharashtra Industrial Museum at Poona, and to rename it as the Mahatma Phule Vastu Sangrahalaya, Poona, and to make better provision for the management and maintenance thereof and to provide for matters connected with the purposes aforesaid ;

It is hereby enacted in the Nineteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows :—

Preliminary

1. Short tittle and commencement:- (1) This Act may be called the Mahatma Phule Vastu Sangrahalaya, Poona, Act, 1968.

(2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

2. Definitions:- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a) “Board” means the Board of Trustees constituted or deemed to be constituted under this Act ;

(b) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act ;

(c) “Museum” means the Mahatma Phule Vastu Sangrahalaya, Poona.

Objects and Membership

3. Aims and objects:- (1) The aims and objects of the Museum shall be—

(a) to serve as an educative institution for the general public, with a view to illustrating—

(i) the various branches of science, and in particular their application to industry, agriculture and commerce;

(ii) the history, the arts, the culture, and the social and economic development of Maharashtra, and the relation thereof to the rest of India and to other countries;

(b) to show by means of exhibits, machines, models, pictures and charts, the origin, development and modern practice of each branch of science and its application to industry, agriculture and commerce ;

(c) to show, by means of exhibits, ancient monuments and relics, figures of deities, coins, instruments of war, instruments of music, vessels and untensils used in religious or social ceremonies, implements of local art and manufacture and such other related exhibits, the history, the arts, the culture, the standards and modes of living, the natural resources, industries, agriculture and social, economic and cultural developments of Maharashtra, supplemented with such other collections as are conducive to the understanding and interpretation of the material in the collections and, wherever necessary, by exhibits showing their relations to similar objects and articles from other parts of India ;

(d) to maintain a library including cinematographic films, lantern slides and photographs ;

(e) to arrange, hold and undertake lectures, demonstrations and tours, with a view to promoting interest in industrial development and in history, arts, culture, and social and economic development of Maharashtra ;

(f) to organise and help in organising industrial and other exhibitions in respect of the matters enumerated in clauses (a) to (c) above ;

(g) to organise and help in organising a commercial empourium ;

(h) to popularise the products of industries and handicrafts of Maharashtra in particular and of India in general ;

(i) to undertake and do all such works and to do all such things as may be necessary for, or conducive to, the attainment of any of the aforesaid aims and objects.

    (2) The Museum shall have a separate Industrial Section, which shall be called “the Lord Reay Industrial Section”.