
Tech and its role in museum makeovers
The following article was prepared by Ruth Dhanaraj for the Hindu on 19th April 2022. Vinod Daniel, an internationally-recognised museum expert, talks about the need for preventive conservation and for smart uses of tech in this field. Gone are the days of yore when museums were trusty harbours for dusty relics. With a growing awareness to preserve cultural treasures for posterity, there has been a bid to make museums more visitor-friendly and the exhibits simpler to understand. Over the past decade, India has been sending its conservators to attend programmes abroad, such as at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New