Category: Heritage Timeline

Heritage Trust in association with Alliance Francaise d’Ahmedabad-Baroda annex brought the French rock band KWAK together with KADAMB, a school of Kathak, founded by renowned dancer Kumudini Lakhia. Fresh twists and turns of Kathak dance movements were synchronized in perfect harmony with western and Indian classical instrumental music. The performance indeed marked the beginning of...

Heritage Trust completed the last project of ‘A set of Panels on Heritage Structures of Baroda”, out of the three projects that were sanctioned by The Vadodara Municipal Corporation and submitted to them in the month of July 07. About 275 Children from 5 schools of Baroda were taken to the Archeology Department of MSU...

The annual Viraasat Lecture was held on the 27th of November 2022 at the FGI auditorium. The speaker, Ms. Heta Pandit has been a Heritage conservation activist for over 25 years where she spoke on her experience of  ‘Heritage Activism in Goa: A Roller Coaster Ride’. The Rajmata, Shubhagini Raje Gaekwad, released Ms. Pandit’s recently...

Heritage Week was celebrated by organising several events. The Laurie Baker walk was led by Pragya and covered the structures designed by Architect Laurie Baker at Navrachana School, Sama, and Jyoti Ltd. The Coin Story was a talk led by Zubair Motiwala at the Ajwa coin museum. A special visit to the Railway Model room was where...

Successful PIL filed by Heritage Trust to save the iconic Pratap Vilas Palace: The palace is over 100 yrs old heritage complex within the confines of the city of Vadodara housing the erstwhile Railway Staff College and home now to the National Academy of Indian Railways and the National High Speed Railway Corporation. To cater to...

VMC – Heritage Trust Clean up drive. This project by the city and the people took place once a week. A site was decided upon by both parties to clean and preserve. The areas around the Jaysingrao Library, the Navgruh Stepwell, the Bhadra Kacheri, the precincts of Yavteshwar Mahadev Mandir, the Gaekwad substation, the Deep...

Viraasat Lecture.  The second quarter of the year has the World Heritage Day on April 18 every year. Heritage Trust’s much awaited Viraasat Lecture was held on April 16. It was delivered by Ar. Aishwarya Tipnis an award-winning architect and heritage conservationist on “Heritage and Us: What citizens can do?” The speaker effectively brought home...

Reimagining Heritage: A Collaborative Initiative of Navrachana University’s Centre for Heritage Research and Heritage Trust Baroda. Exhibition and walking tours were organized as part of the event Reimagining Heritage, by the Center for Heritage Research of Navrachana University along with the Heritage Trust Baroda. These two organizations collaborated for these events in order to raise...

World Water Day was celebrated at Sevasi Vav. Ananta Foundation held an awareness event at the Sevasi Stepwell (popularly known as the Vidyadhar Vav) on 22 March, celebrated as the World Water Day. The foundation has adopted the Stepwell for two years and will be carrying out its regular cleaning and upkeep. They intend to...

Royal Lunch at Jambughoda, Darbargarh was organised for HT members. At Rs. 1200 per head, Bhavnadevi of Jambughoda worked out an excellent menu for 20 persons. The Lunch was organized for the morning of Sunday, March 13. Heritage Trust has links with the Jambughoda Royal Family for many years. When they first started offering meals...