George Jacob
A former Project Director at The Smithsonian’s prestigious National Museum of American History, George Jacob, has been named director of the Khalsa Heritage Complex in Anandpur Sahib reports the Midland Daily News. The Khalsa Heritage Complex is one of the largest museum complex in India currently in advanced stages of construction.
Smithsonian trained Jacob, an internationally sought veteran museologist, has been the founding director of two museums in his career.
The 650,000-square-foot museum and heritage center rises above a seven acre web of reflecting pools connected by a 165-meter pedestrian bridge connecting different zones of the museum galleries, library, cafe and performing arts theater, with exhibits celebrating 500 years of heritage, aspirations and living traditions of the Sikh diaspora.Phase 1 of the $224 million project opens in the fall of 2010.
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This building is an ugly eye sore in the hills of Anandpur. Do we really need a sikh museum ?
Lighten up Kanwal, we all know that it is important to preserve our identity for the future generation and this may just be another way of showcasing our religion to the next generation. It is important to think of new ways to keep our youth engaged and this museum may be a way of doing that, but time will tell. As for calling it an ugly eyesore I think that is subjective. We all have different ideas of beauty and I for one quite like the design of the building its something unique its also currently the largest museum in India. I just hope lots of people come and visit.