{"id":2156,"date":"2019-06-21T07:17:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T07:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2019-06-21T07:17:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T07:17:27","slug":"india-partners-with-portugal-to-set-up-a-national-maritime-heritage-museum-at-lothal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/india-partners-with-portugal-to-set-up-a-national-maritime-heritage-museum-at-lothal\/","title":{"rendered":"India partners with Portugal to set up a national maritime heritage museum at Lothal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>India<\/strong>&nbsp;has\npartnered with&nbsp;<strong>Portugal<\/strong>&nbsp;to\nset up a&nbsp;<strong>national\nmaritime heritage museum<\/strong>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<strong>Lothal in Gujarat.<\/strong>&nbsp;The&nbsp;<strong>Indian Navy<\/strong>&nbsp;will\nbe the<strong>&nbsp;stakeholder&nbsp;<\/strong>in\nthe project and the<strong>&nbsp;Portuguese\nNavy<\/strong>will assist as they have experience in it by administering\nthe maritime museum in<strong>&nbsp;Lisbon,\nPortugal.<\/strong>&nbsp;India is to follow a similar model of the\nmaritime museum.<br><br><strong>Implementation\nof the project:<\/strong><br>\nIn March 2019,&nbsp;<strong>Prime Minister Narendra Modi&nbsp;<\/strong>laid\nthe<strong>&nbsp;foundation\nstone&nbsp;<\/strong>for the project and the&nbsp;<strong>Government of India<\/strong>&nbsp;has\nallocated a grant for building the maritime museum.<br>\nThe project will be implemented by the<strong>&nbsp;Ministry of Shipping&nbsp;<\/strong>through\nits&nbsp;<strong>Sagarmala\nprogramme<\/strong>. The&nbsp;<strong>Archaeological\nSurvey of India (ASI)<\/strong>&nbsp;along with the State government and\nother stakeholders is also involved in setting up the museum.<br><br><strong>Partnership\nand plans:<\/strong><br>\nThe initial discussion about the partnership was\nheld during the visit of&nbsp;<strong>Portuguese\nDefence Minister Jo\u00e3o Gomes Cravinho<\/strong>&nbsp;to India in April 2019.\nA Defence Ministry-led delegation will visit Portugal<strong>&nbsp;to study the existing museum.<\/strong><br><br><strong>Maritime\nmuseum:<\/strong><br>\nA maritime museum is a museum that specializes\nin display the objects relating to<strong>&nbsp;ships\nand travel on large bodies of water.&nbsp;<\/strong>A subcategory of\nmaritime museums are naval museums, which focus on navies and the military use\nof the sea.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&nbsp;has partnered with&nbsp;Portugal&nbsp;to set up a&nbsp;national maritime heritage museum&nbsp;at&nbsp;Lothal in Gujarat.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Indian Navy&nbsp;will be the&nbsp;stakeholder&nbsp;in the project and the&nbsp;Portuguese Navywill assist as they have experience in it by administering the maritime museum in&nbsp;Lisbon, Portugal.&nbsp;India is to follow a similar model of the maritime museum. Implementation of the project: In March 2019,&nbsp;Prime Minister Narendra Modi&nbsp;laid the&nbsp;foundation stone&nbsp;for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2158,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions\/2158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}