The ‘green, clean and smart’ museum initiative of the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum in Pune, is closer to its three-pronged goal, as the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany, and the German Consulate General in Mumbai have stepped in with funds to help. The German Consulate in Mumbai will give the museum located in the old centre of the Peshwa city, Rs 40 lakh for the green, clean and smart project which commences in June this year and is to be wrapped up by 2021 end.

The museum has more than 23,000 priceless artifacts Top: (left to right) Dr Juergen Morhard (Consul General, German Consulate Mumbai), Sudhanva Ranade (Director, Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum) and Ashumi Shroff (Economic Officer, German Consulate Mumbai)