North Block's gallery to showcase 100 artefacts

WITH THE POWER corridors of North Block at the heart of the National Capital having been mostly vacated, as part of a master plan to redevelop the Central Vista area, the heritage building is now all set to rewind the clock.

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It has been learnt that the ground floor will now house a 1,500 sq m gallery, called "Time and Timelessness", which will showcase around 100 landmark artefacts held by museums and collections across the country — a space that explores "Bharat's civilisational relationship with time", spanning "centuries of cultural, philosophical, and scientific evolution".

The gallery is part of the Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum complex at the North and South Blocks. And accordingly, it will have artefacts spanning thousands of years, covering all regions: starting with an Indus Valley terracotta hourglass created in Kalibangan between 2500-1700 BC; Chola bronzes created in the 10th and 11th centuries in Tamil Nadu; an astrolabe created in Lahore in 1567; and Gupta-period sculptures created in the 5th century.