Tree of knowledge

Get a possibility to learn about singular and opposite trees and their aptitude to a health of a ecosystem with a travel around a BDL Museum

Tree of knowledge

Prints from a singular book, Oriental Memoirs, by James Forbes; (right) Payar is one of a many photographed trees in a plaza

We are wakeful that environmental concerns such as ozone depletion, atmosphere and H2O pollution, tellurian warming, desertification, and deforestation are causing critical repairs to a planet. To expostulate home this existential indicate themed around World Environment Day, Dr Bhau Daji Lad City Museum, along with STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) Academy, has organized a travel by a museum piazza to demeanour during a accumulation of trees, from mango, coconut and whistling pine, to jackfruit. It will be curated by Dr AP Jayaraman along with Abhishek Arekar, a biotechnologist, and will highlight on a value of planting trees to lessen meridian change.

Delonix regia or gulmoharDelonix regia or gulmohar

The event will start with an introduction to a museum collection. This will be followed by a travel in a piazza where experts will explain systematic information associated to a trees. Through this walk, they wish to inspire people to have a greener prophesy for a city, that is essential for tellurian kind. Dr Jayaraman, a late chief scientist-turned-science communicator, explains, “We usually have one earth, and we are immoderate a resources irresponsibly. The window is shutting quick on us and we contingency quickly switch over to tolerable actions. Trees are absolute collection in a quarrel opposite tellurian warming as they catch CO dioxide from a atmosphere and revoke a impact of meridian change. A travel around a museum garden will be an engaging approach to illuminate people about this.”

The travel is partial of a monthly collaborative sessions between a museum and STEAM Academy. It was started to move a systematic viewpoint to a collection and to try art by systematic principles. The museum’s preparation and overdo programme is also centred on a bargain of meridian change and tries to teach people by such sessions. Originally founded as a healthy story museum, a early curators experimented with opposite plants, herbs, and class in a museum garden. It also showcases a territory of 4 volumes by British artist James Forbes, that date behind to 1813.

On Jun 4, 11 am 
At BDL Museum, Dr Ambedkar Road, Byculla East. 
Log on to education@bdlmuseum.org 
Cost Rs 10 (museum entry) 


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