Recently we went for one day picnic to visit Siddhagiri Museum. The place is near from Kolhapur city towards Belgaum on Pune-Bangalore highway. Siddhagiri Museum is spread over 700 acres, includes more than 300 sculptures. The main objective of this museum is to refresh the history of self-sufficient village.
The journey begins with the sculptures of great ancient Indians in fields of Astronomy, Mathematics, Medicines, Ayurveda, Law, and Management. Aryabhatta (Mathematitian), Bhagirath (Engineer), Bharatmuni (Musicologist), Maharshi Kaanad (studies on biatomic & triatomic molecules), Kashyap (Gynecologist), Varahmihir (Astronomer), Vishnusharma (Politics – Panchatantra) are to name a few.
After this a typical farming is described in the form of sculptures. All the operations of farming (Perani, Malani, Nangarani etc.) are shown here. The village describes every possible work profession which are necessary for human living. There were 12 BALUTEDARS (12 main profession based casts i.e. Professions performed by generation by family members) and 18 ALUTEDARS, who provided equipment's to all villagers useful in their day-to-day necessities of domestic as well as Agricultural life. Raashi Garden is newly added feature in this museum. Raashi garden has sculptures of zodiac signs.
Great care and efforts have been taken to build this museum. The sculptures are 5 to 6 feet tall and made of cement. These sculptures looks very realistic and every minute detail of human body like nerves on forearm & forehead, abdominal muscles, eyes, expressions etc. is shown. Maintenance of the museum is not very good and road to reach the museum is also in bad condition but it makes you to forget these things after watching all the sculptures in museum. Taking photographs is banned at this place. I found some pictures on internet which i have attached as screenshots. More information about this museum can be found on http://www.siddhagirimuseum.org/
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