Organisation and Management of Cultural Heritage Collections in Manipur: A Study

Cultural Heritage collections constitute important information resources of the society playing a significant role in preserving the rich cultural and historical heritage of a society. They are also the powerful media for transferring our literary, linguistic, artistic and cultural heritage from one generation to the generations to come. Such invaluable resources reflect many dimensions and aspects of the land, people, culture, custom, religion, administration, cultivation, festivals, horoscope, etc of a society. They are found mostly with the private custodians, museums, archives, libraries and archaeological institutions. The study on such collections has also become an important area of research in Library and Information Science today. The present paper is an attempt to study Cultural Heritage collections available in Manipur on certain specific areas taking into consideration museums, archives and archaeological institutions located in Manipur.