Keeladi open air museum to be inaugurated today

Madurai: The Keeladi open air museum will be inaugurated by chief minister M K Stalin through video conferencing on Friday, the department of archaeology said.The museum was developed over an extent of 4.5 acres and 65,380sqft at an estimated cost of 24.3 crore.The open air museum, established alongside the existing Keeladi museum, will showcase the largest brick structure unearthed during the excavations. The existing museum already houses hundreds of artefacts discovered since archaeological excavations at Keeladi began in 2014-15.The facility consists of two exhibition halls designed to facilitate public viewing and interpretation of the discoveries. This includes ring wells, pottery fragments and drainage systems, among others.