Don Bosco Museum: A Brief History

The idea of a DBCIC and especially of the Museum has to be seen in the context of the reopening of the Sacred Heart Theological College (SHTC) in 1976 after a long period of wanderings. With its reopening in 1976, SHTC was fortunate to have Fr. Sebastian Karotemprel SDB first as its Principal from 1976 to 1987 and later on to benefit from his continued presence in the college as professor from 1987 till his death in 2014. This meant nearly four decades of fruitful, creative and dynamic presence in Shillong.

Don Bosco Museum: Management & Staff

Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous Cultures (DBCIC) is a unique venture of the Salesians of Don Bosco in North East India to develop expert facilities for the preservation and promotion of numerous beautiful and diverse indigenous cultures of the region, of India in particular and in communion with indigenous cultures anywhere in the world.

Don Bosco Museum: Architecture

Architecturally robust, pleasant to climb up, excellent use of space as in a honey comb hexagonal everywhere and allowing natural light and easy fresh air circulation, the DBCIC building is certainly Vivek Varma’s architectural pride. He has many more architectural “firsts” in Shillong and elsewhere in the country, mostly in the North East,

Don Bosco Museum: FCRA Intimation

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Don Bosco Museum: Facilities

Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous Cultures (DBCIC) is a unique venture of the Salesians of Don Bosco in North East India to develop expert facilities for the preservation and promotion of numerous beautiful and diverse indigenous cultures of the region, of India in particular and in communion with indigenous cultures anywhere in the world.

Don Bosco Museum: Getting Here

Shillong Airport: There is a small airport in Umroi, about 40km from Shillong city with flights via Alliance Air (operated by Indian Airlines) to/from Kolkata on certain days of the week. The airport is also known as Umroi Airport or Barapani Air Force Base. A 28-seater Starbus operated by MTDC services to/from the Airport to MTDC Station in Police Bazar, Shillong. Taxi services are also available.

Don Bosco Museum: Eatery

North East India with its nearly 300 cultural communities, besides being a mosaic of living cultures, is also an incredible assortment of cuisines. Get a taste of at least a few of them in the Food Gallery of Don Bosco Museum. After many foreign and domestic tourists who visited the museum inquire the availability of ethnic cuisine of the region, a Food Gallery was setup where indigenous cuisine of the region can be tasted, such as the pork chops to bamboo shoot, the world-renowned Raja Mirchi, the less spicy cuisine of Mizoram,......

Don Bosco Museum: Group Visit

If you are in a group of 15 plus, you can contact the Management at the Museum for a Vehicle (42 Seater Bus, 12 Seater Traveller Bus) to pick you up from any spot within Shillong city. The Vehicle Pick-Up rate is at a reasonable fare.

Don Bosco Museum: Testimonials

Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous Cultures (DBCIC) is a unique venture of the Salesians of Don Bosco in North East India to develop expert facilities for the preservation and promotion of numerous beautiful and diverse indigenous cultures of the region, of India in particular and in communion with indigenous cultures anywhere in the world.

Don Bosco Museum: Review Us

The Museum is part of a much wider reality known as DBCIC (Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous Cultures). DBCIC consists of Don Bosco Museum [of indigenous cultures], Research, Publications, and Knowledge-Sharing with the help of multimedia.

The idea of a DBCIC and especially of the Museum has to be seen in the context of the reopening of the Sacred Heart Theological College (SHTC) in 1976 after a long period of wanderings. With its reopening in 1976, SHTC was fortunate to have Fr. Sebastian Karotemprel SDB first as its Principal from 1976 to 1987.

Don Bosco Museum: Pres Release

Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous Cultures (DBCIC) is a unique venture of the Salesians of Don Bosco in North East India to develop expert facilities for the preservation and promotion of numerous beautiful and diverse indigenous cultures of the region, of India in particular and in communion with indigenous cultures anywhere in the world.

Don Bosco Museum: Video gallery

Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous Cultures (DBCIC) is a unique venture of the Salesians of Don Bosco in North East India to develop expert facilities for the preservation and promotion of numerous beautiful and diverse indigenous cultures of the region, of India in particular and in communion with indigenous cultures anywhere in the world.

Don Bosco Museum: NEIRA Journals

To encourage and facilitate anthropological research across the States of North East India with the aim of rendering the complexities of the region more legible, and to accumulate valuable data on the swiftly changing cultures and traditions, Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous Cultures (DBCIC) brings out a Journal – Anthropology.

Don Bosco Museum: Internship

By internship we mean students/interested persons spending some quality time in Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous Cultures (DBCIC) and in Don Bosco Museum. In DBCIC and in the Museum they can meet visitors and interact with them.

Don Bosco Museum: Library

Adjacent to DBCIC, the Otto Hopfenmueller Library of the Sacred Heart Theological College is also located at the same Campus. Presently the Library has 110,473 volumes of which some 8,000 deal with cultures of North East India and 12,518 are bound volumes of reviews or journals. The library subscribes to 130 journals/ reviews (mostly Indian). The facilities provided by the Centre are frequented by school students, research students and anthropologists.

Don Bosco Museum: Workshops & Seminars

DBCIC have organized several workshops and seminars in collaboration with other institutions in the past few years:

This gallery will provide us with an impression of the various sorts of weapons used amongst the different tribes in India’s North East. The gallery is a reminder of how people struggled for survival.

Don Bosco Museum: Donate Materials

Thank you for your interest to donate materials to Don Bosco Museum, Shillong. Thank you for your interest to donate materials to Don Bosco Museum, Shillong. The Museum acquires new materials/artifacts for its permanent collection in the Museum through donations and/or bequests.

Don Bosco Museum: Archived Issue

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Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous Cultures (DBCIC) is a unique venture of the Salesians of Don Bosco in North East India to develop expert facilities for the preservation and promotion of numerous beautiful and diverse indigenous cultures of the region, of India in particular and in communion with indigenous cultures anywhere in the world.