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[[File:Goa Chitra Museum 5.jpg|thumb|Goa Chitra Museum]]The '''Goa Chitra''' is an ethnographic museum based in the former Portuguese colony (and now India's smallest state) of [[Goa]]. It has a large collection—over 4000 artefacts <ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/goa-chitra-museum-benaulim/#s-cust0|title=A quick tour of Goa’s heritage through 4,000 artefacts|publisher=Architectural Digest|date=15 August 2018}}</ref>—focusing on Goa's [[traditional occupations of Goa|traditional agrarian technology and lifestyle]]. [[File:Goa Chitra Museum.jpg|thumb|Goa Chitra Museum, entrance.]]Goa Chitra is based in the coastal Goan village of [[Benaulim]]. It was founded and is run (2010) by the artist-curator-restorer Victor-Hugo Gomes. [[TimeOut Mumbai]] has described the museum as "[o]ne of Goa's most charming attractions" and add that "this little rural complex houses thousands of traditional implements, vessels and tools that evolved over centuries in the agrarian heartland of Goa in the service of farming and other traditional trades".<ref>[http://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@lists.goanet.org/msg53930.html 15 new things to look out for in Goa this season]</ref>

==Collection==

[[File:Goa Chitra Museum 22.jpg|thumb|Goa Chitra view.]]Goa Chitra's collection includes examples of local pottery, farming tools, musical instruments, ancient carts and palanquins<ref>http://www.goachitra.com/collections.html</ref>—from different points of the past. It also showcases an organic farm for the cultivation of various vegetables, herbs, spices, sugarcane, and rice—all staples of the area in coastal western India.

==Eco-use==

[[File:Goa Chitra Museum 16.jpg|thumb|From another era.]]Fertiliser and pesticides utilised are made from farm waste, using traditional techniques. Rather ingeniously, human waste from the living quarters is also converted to bio-gas, and together with solar power, provides the energy needs of the farm.

==Topmost contemporary museum==

[[File:Goa Chitra Museum 18.jpg|thumb|Goa Chitra setting.]]The Goa Chitra Museum has been rated by the [[Archaeological Survey of India]] as the "topmost contemporary museum" in India.<ref>[http://www.dailypioneer.com/247030/Get-fresh-with-this-museum.html/ A one-man mission, Goa Chitra Museum houses live specimen too]</ref>

[[File:Goa Chitra Museum 9.jpg|thumb|Altars.]]TIME, in a write-up, said: "The exhibits include hundreds of tillage implements, in testimony to a time when agriculture was Goa's mainstay. (Now, tourism and mining are the key industries and Goa depends on neighboring states for such staples as cereals and vegetables.) A sugarcane grinder standing almost five meters high is one of the main focal points of the museum. Gomes took over two years to restore it."<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/travel/article/0,31542,2000884,00.html Next Time You're in ... Goa]</ref>

==Plans==

[[File:Goa Chitra Museum 12.jpg|thumb|Furniture, etc.]]The museum plans to be a focal point for providing information to its visitors,; offer workshops for young children from schools and university students offer the opportunity to work with artisans; help artisans with craft development, to make contemporary products based on the inspiration of their traditions which are saleable and help them earn towards a dignified life; and build a documentation-dissemination plan to "guarantee the systematic collection of information about the operation of the project and provide the basis for sharing information with other similar projects."<ref>[http://www.goachitra.com/museum.html Methods for Achieving Goals and Objectives]</ref>

==See also==
{{portal|Food|History|India}}
* [[List of food and beverage museums]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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*[http://www.goachitra.com/ Goa Chitra Museum]
*[http://www.time.com/time/travel/article/0,31542,2000884,00.html?xid=rss-travel Next Time You're in ... Goa]
*[http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com/tag/victor-hugo-gomes/ Remembering Yesterday’s Goa via Benaulim]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110721163457/http://www.navhindtimes.in/iwatch/goa-chitra-celebrates-international-museum-day Goa Chitra Celebrates International Museum Day]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100608065746/http://www.navhindtimes.in/iexplore/m-k-narayanan-s-tryst-goa-s-heritage M.K. Narayan's Tryst with Goa's Heritage]
*[http://www.oheraldo.in/news/Local%20News/Goa-Chitra-museum-of-State-rsquo-s-rich-past/36916.html/ Goa Chitra, museum of State’s rich past]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100704035010/http://www.navhindtimes.in/iexplore/goa-chitra-launches-first-heritage-trail Goa Chitra launches first heritage trail]
*[http://www.goa-tourism.com/entertainment.php?id=14/ Goa Chitra]
*[http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com/tag/victor-hugo-gomes/ Remembering yesterday’s Goa… via Benaulim]
*[http://travelcurators.com/heritage/goa-chitra-ethnographic-museum-in-benaulim-goa Goa Chitra: Ethnographical Museum]
*[http://www.goa-tourism.com/entertainment.php?id=14 Goa’s first and only ethnographic museum]

==Photo gallery==
<gallery caption="Goa Chitra Museum" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4" class="center">
File:Victor_Hugo_Gomes.JPG|Victor Hugo Gomes, Founder and Curator of the Goa Chitra Museum
File:The_irrigation_well_for_the_farm_incorporated_within_the_museum_structure.JPG|The Irrigation Well for the farm incorporated within the museum structure
File:Ancient_mode_of_transport.JPG|Ancient Mode of Transport
File:Storage_Implements.JPG|Storage Implements
File:Ploughing_implements.JPG|Ploughing Implements
File:Coconut_oil_extractor_and_dehusking_mills.jpg|Coconut Oil Extractor and Dehusking Mills
File:Draft_animals_utilities.jpg|Draft Animal Utilities
File:Butter_churning_implements.jpg|Butter Churning Implements
</gallery>

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