Tag: #Museum
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Nepal’s 1st hydroelectric plant is a museum piece
Reservoir pond of the Pharping hydropower project 12 km south of Kathmandu Valley. Photo: ASMIT RAJBHANDARIIt was 6:30pm on 22 May 1911, and the…
US museum returns stolen Nepal god
The original 12th-century Laxmi-Narayan stolen in 1984. Photo: LAIN SINGH BANGDEL In Sotheby’s catalogue in 1990. Photo: ERIN L. THOMPSON The…
Portraying portraiture at Taragaon
The visitor to the Taragaon Museum is surrounded by faces: from large, realistic examinations of elderly men and women to symbolic portraits in…
The art of living
Many of the everyday items Nepalis traditionally used in their homes are going or gone. So have the words that described them. Plastic buckets…