3. Cyanotype workshop with MMPS students at PAMM

4. Painting workshop with MMPS students at PAMM and Painting Gallery

Study tour of the students of
Maharana Mewar Public School, Udaipur

EXHIBITIONS
1. 'Tinted by tradition'- A new exhibition of painted photographs by artist Waswo X Waswo and Rajesh Soni at the Bhagwat Prakash Photo Gallery

Visitors at Tinted by Tradition

2. Special online exhibition on Postcards of Delhi from PAMM, of the firm HA Mirza & Sons. Coordinated to time with MMCF annual awards 2012 and launch of PAMM Access Policy. The exhibition is available to view at the following URL: http://www.eternalmewar.in/a-hundred-years-distant/PhotoGallery.html

Postcards of Delhi of the firm
HA Mirza & Sons from PAMM

Archival Report 2011-12
After three years of cataloguing the photography and painting collection at the City Palace Museum, Udaipur, an Access Policy governing the ways in which the visual material in the Pictorial Archives of the Maharanas of Mewar (PAMM) can be accessed by scholars / researchers and other enthusiasts has been created and is available at http://www.eternalmewar.in/help/access-policy.aspx. This is the first time that any Indian Museum has formulated clear guidelines on Access, and made the document freely available online, with all relevant details including the cost of image reproductions. The document also regulates internal use of the Archives.

MMCF staff were first familiarized with the procedures, leading up to a trial launch from January 2011. The Policy was formally launched in March 2012. To commemorate this important occasion, the first online exhibition from PAMM was put up. Coinciding with celebrations marking 100 years of the founding of New Delhi, the exhibition was titled - A 100 years Distant - Postcards of Delhi by HA Mirza & Sons and showcased historic views of Delhi through postcards from PAMM's collection.

Since the Policy has been trialled, more than 275 images from the Archive have been released for various scholarly publications as well as used internally within the City Palace Complex. Scholars whose visits have been facilitated as per the policy and procedures include:

Ms. Dipti Khera, USA; Ms. Dayanita Singh, New Delhi; Mr. Darshan Shah, Kolkata; Dr. Jyotindra Jain, New Delhi; Ms. Rochele from Museum of the Moving Images, USA; Dr. Anupa Pande, National Museum Institute, New Delhi; Dr. Debra Diamond and Neil, USA; Ms. Lauren Power, Perth, Australia; Dr. Harsha Dehejia, Canada; Dr. Andrew Topsfield, UK; Dr. N. S. Andhare, Ahmedabad; Dr. Christopher Pinney; Dr. Miles Taylor, UK; Ms. Yamini Sharma from FFA, Vadodara; Dr. Vandana Bhandari from NIFT, New Delhi; Ms. Radhika Bordia and Pooja from NDTV; Mr. Abhimanyu Arha, JNU, New Delhi.

Mr. Andrew Topsfield visiting the
Pictorial Archives of the Maharanas of Mewar