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Queen to unveil Sikh museum at Derby
WSN Network
 Jalandhar:
The British Queen will inaugurate the National Sikh Heritage Centre
and
Holocaust Museum at Derby in England in the last week of July,
Chairman of museum’s Trust, Rajinder Singh Purewal, has said. The
exact date for the event has not been decided, he told a media
conference in Jalandhar.
The museum would display five big and two mini guns from
Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s regime, covers of Sikh weapons, ancient
coins, old paintings related to Sikh soldiers, and six lithographs
would also be placed in the museum.
“A reference library has been established in
Derby, with more
than 300 books related with Sikh religion. The Derby City Council
has put up signboards showing the way to the museum and the name of
the museum has been put on the list of renowned places in the city
with the help of Singh Sabha Guru Ghar, Derby and Sikh Community
Youth Service, Nottingham,” he added.
Purewal said that they are going to register a protest
against some bogus religious persons in
Chester city on
July 27, so that Indians could come out from their net. The Language
Department in Punjab is not doing enough to preserve Sikh heritage
documents, he said. “The government should put the documents in our
charge if they cannot look after them,” he said.
UK based
expatriates Harbhajan Singh and Raghbir Singh asked people to come
forward with any relics of Sikh history which would get their pride
of place in the museum.
18 March 2009
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