{"id":12081,"date":"2013-07-09T17:56:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T12:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=12081"},"modified":"2013-07-09T18:20:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T12:50:22","slug":"museum-at-shangumugham-still-on-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/museum-at-shangumugham-still-on-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum at Shangumugham still on paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A historical museum of Trivandrum city at South Palace called <strong>Thekke Kottaram<\/strong> in <strong>Shangumugham<\/strong> is yet to begin. Earlier, the Society for Protection of Cultural Heritage (SPOCH) was entrusted with the task of preparing a detailed project plan for converting the Thekke Kottaram into a museum.<\/p>\n<p>In the proposed museum at Shangumugham, the history of Trivandrum Corporation and information about the city which mentioned in the travelogues of renowned travellers who visited the state are showcased. From the office of SOPCH, it is learnt that its former chairman, the late artist J Sasikumar, had prepared a detailed project report and submitted it to the City Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA committee was formed for the revamp of the palace into a museum and now the Corporation is engaged in maintenance work at the palace.&#8221;\u00a0 Officials at the engineering wing of the Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say that steps are taken to go ahead with the plan for setting up the museum. \u201cWe have initiated the procedures for setting up the museum. The ground floor of the palace will be maintained as an art gallery to conduct painting exhibitions and some paintings will be put on display in the palace. Steps have been initiated to buy some paintings for the purpose,\u201d said Deputy Mayor G Happykumar.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Trivandrum City Corporation renovated the Thekke Kottaram in Shangumugham to its former glory. The palace also hosted a painting exhibition during last year Onam. Thekke Kottaram was the guest house of the royal family of erstwhile Travancore. The palace is as old as the <strong>&#8216;Thai kottaram&#8217; (Mother&#8217;s palace)<\/strong>, which would make it about <strong>400 year old<\/strong>. Now, it serves as a heritage museum, exhibiting antique household articles and curios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A historical museum of Trivandrum city at South Palace called Thekke Kottaram in Shangumugham is yet to begin. Earlier, the Society for Protection of Cultural Heritage (SPOCH) was entrusted with the task of preparing a detailed project plan for converting the Thekke Kottaram into a museum. In the proposed museum at Shangumugham, the history of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[377,452],"class_list":["post-12081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-museum","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}