Uttarpara Rajbari puja room to house museum

Kolkata: Uttarpara Rajbari, which now houses Uttarpara State General Hospital, will have an onsite museum in one of the rooms. The PWD has also put up a board to assure the public that the erstwhile palace will be restored to its former glory.
While speaking to TOI, Uttarpara Rajbari family members had issued an appeal to Bengal Heritage Commission chairman Alapan Bandyopadhyay that it would like to display the family heirloom in a room.Accordingly, the district administration arranged a meeting with the family members at the palace.


According to the district administration, the room where puja was carried out earlier has been chosen for the museum. The family members expressed satisfaction with the size of the room. Four beds have now been dumped in the room as renovation work is underway. Once the renovation is over, the room will be vacated.
During the meeting with the heirs of the family, it was decided that the family would finalise a list of artefacts to be displayed and share it with the Hooghly district authority. The family members said that they would have an internal meeting to finalise the list of artefacts, said a district official.
“It is indeed great news. We are immensely thankful to Bengal Heritage Commission. Right from Raja Joykrishna to Raja Peary Mohan, they built numerous schools, colleges and research institutions. They also funded nationalist movements. We want to display artefacts used by these great men. We will seek artefacts from each wing of the descendants so that it becomes a rich collection to marvel at. There will be a lot of photographs that will give a good throwback to the past,” said Kaushik Mukherjee, great-great-grandson of Raja Peary Mohan Mukherjee.
The Rajbari was extensively demolished in the name of repairing. Following the reports in TOI, Bengal Heritage Commission intervened and ensured that the building gets restored to its original glory.
Kolkata: Uttarpara Rajbari, which now houses Uttarpara State General Hospital, will have an onsite museum in one of the rooms. The PWD has also put up a board to assure the public that the erstwhile palace will be restored to its former glory.
While speaking to TOI, Uttarpara Rajbari family members had issued an appeal to Bengal Heritage Commission chairman Alapan Bandyopadhyay that it would like to display the family heirloom in a room. Accordingly, the district administration arranged a meeting with the family members at the palace.
According to the district administration, the room where puja was carried out earlier has been chosen for the museum. The family members expressed satisfaction with the size of the room. Four beds have now been dumped in the room as renovation work is underway. Once the renovation is over, the room will be vacated.
During the meeting with the heirs of the family, it was decided that the family would finalise a list of artefacts to be displayed and share it with the Hooghly district authority. The family members said that they would have an internal meeting to finalise the list of artefacts, said a district official.
“It is indeed great news. We are immensely thankful to Bengal Heritage Commission. Right from Raja Joykrishna to Raja Peary Mohan, they built numerous schools, colleges and research institutions. They also funded nationalist movements. We want to display artefacts used by these great men. We will seek artefacts from each wing of the descendants so that it becomes a rich collection to marvel at. There will be a lot of photographs that will give a good throwback to the past,” said Kaushik Mukherjee, great-great-grandson of Raja Peary Mohan Mukherjee.
The Rajbari was extensively demolished in the name of repairing. Following the reports in TOI, Bengal Heritage Commission intervened and ensured that the building gets restored to its original glory.