Saswati Chaudhuri

Education and Training:
• Graduated in Visual Art (Drawing & Painting-Western Style: 5 years course) from Govt. College of Art and Craft, Calcutta, 1986
• Diploma in French Language, from School of Languages, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Calcutta, 1986
• ‘Jr. Fellowship award’ in Visual Art (Painting) from Ministry of Culture of Dept. of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, 1998-2000.
• Studied Beginner’s Exposure to Software Technology and Multimedia Course from National Institute of Computer Education, Delhi, 2001-2002.
• ‘Diploma in English Creative Writing’ (General English, Feature Writing, Media Writing and Poetry) IGNOU, New Delhi, 2004.
• Professional Course in Cinematography, Media & Journalism Dept, Maharaja Agrasen College, Delhi University, 2010
• M.A. in Museology, National Museum Institute, National Museum, Janpath, New Delhi, 2013
• Research training (Wikipedia) during The GLAM project at the National Museum is organized by Wikimedia India Chapter.
• Completed Museum Guide training programme organized by National Museum Institute, Janpath New Delhi. January 2014
• Participated in Calligraphy Workshop jointly organized by National Museum Institute, New Delhi and Iran Culture House, 2013
• Participated in Workshop on ‘Historic Textiles in Museums: Conservation and display, Museology and Education’ jointly organized by National Museum Institute, New Delhi and University of Applied arts Vienna, Austria, 2013
• NET cleared (exam held in December 2014)
• Completed 3 months training on ‘Care of textiles and other organic materials’ from National Museum, 1st February to 30th April, 2016