The Partition Museum located in in the graceful red brick Town Hall in Amritsar has won the ‘Best Wider World Tourism Project’ award at the British Guild of Travel Writers International Tourism (BGTW) Awards 2020, held online on April 18 in the United Kingdom.
- The museum-the world’s first museum and memorial on the Partition, opened its doors to the public in August 2017.
- The museum comprises 14 galleries, all housing audio-visual records, artworks of various mediums (photographs to paintings), as well as numerous refugee artefacts.
- There will be a second museum on the Partition at the Dara Shikoh Library Building, Old Delhi, which will be ready by August 15, in time for India@75.
(Source: The Hindu)
