Union Culture Minister, G Kishan Reddy laid the foundation stone for the country’s first digital National Museum of Epigraphy at the Salar Jung Museum in Hyderabad.
- The Archaeological Survey of India is establishing the museum and about one lakh ancient inscriptions of various languages and periods of time will be placed in it.
- Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman announced in 2023-24 Union Budget, the establishment of the Bharat Shared Repository of Inscriptions (BharatSHRI) with the digitisation of one lakh ancient inscriptions.
- Reddy highlighted the transformative potential of the digital museum, portraying it as an invaluable resource that will unlock a treasure trove of knowledge for scholars and researchers.
- This will be a groundbreaking digital museum, opening a treasure trove of knowledge to scholars and researchers.
