Multimedia Museum on Sikh Warriors Unveiled at Sabhraon (Ferozpur, Punjab)

Akal Takht Sahib Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh inaugurating the museum at Sabhraon
Akal Takht Sahib Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh inaugurating the museum at Sabhraon

FEROZPUR, Punjab—The world’s 6th Multimedia Sikh Museum was inaugurated by Giani Gurbachan Singh, appointed Jathedar Sri Akal Takht Sahib, at Sabhraon (District Ferozpur) where the last and fifth Anglo-Sikh war was fought on February 10, 1846.

In this war Sardar Sham Singh Attari sacrificed his life along with other Sikh warriors to protect Khalsa Raj established by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. The Museum has been dedicated to Shaheed S. Sham Singh Attari to commemorate his priceless martyrdom.

The museum has been authored and directed by world renowned encyclopaedist and museologist Dr Raghbir Singh Bains of Canada and produced and constructed by Baba Shinder Singh Kar Sewa Fatehgarh Sabhra (Sabhraon).

The museum is a one-stop platform for those wanting to refresh their knowledge about Sikhism and re-learn its forgotten facts. After the first Multimedia Sikh Museum set up at Khadur Sahib by Dr Bains, the second museum was set up in Jalandhar, the third in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, the fourth museum in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh and the fifth museum was set up by Dr Bains at Sultanpur Sahib. These museums are attracting a lot of international visitors ever since these were inaugurated.

The idea for this museum was floated during 2014 and the work of setting up the museum at Sabhraon was finished in 2015. The driving force behind the museum is Canada-based Sikh scholar Dr Raghbir Singh Bains who has to his credit thousands of pages of text, tones of graphics, audio, video, animations and paintings on Sikhism authored and compiled over a period of 25 years.

Dr. Raghir Singh Bains honoured
Dr. Raghir Singh Bains honoured

The sixth museum is again Bains’ way of giving back to the community in India, where he spent a major part of his life. Equipped with three made-to-order 17 inch touch-screens and 3 LCD TVs, the museum has 13 paintings depicting different incidents from Sikh history. The captions about these pictures can be read and listened to by touching audio buttons meant for Punjabi, English and Hindi languages.

The computerized setup in the museum has a material of more than 400 hours which includes thousands of subjects on Sikhism, Sri Guru Granth Sahib in Gurmukhi and English, Kirtan in 31 Ragas, information on socio-spiritual life history of Sikh Gurus, specially designed educational lessons on learning of English and Punjabi, Gurdwaras of the world, Sikh encyclopaedia for adults and children, thousands of questions and answers on Sikhism and other religions, quizzes, a big chapter on curbing the menace of drugs, foeticide, HIV-AIDS and other social evils, animated Sikh Ardas and a series on Sikh martyrs, religious videos, and much more.

Dr. Bains said his project has many objectives to educate the youth about Sikhism, its golden principals to spread a message of peace and prosperity, universal brotherhood, well being of the entire human race and to help humans to lead a generous and truthful life to serve humanity in a better way.

Giani Gurbachan Singh thanked Dr Raghbir Singh Bains for creating this valuable facility with the newest technology. He appealed people to visit the Museum and stay away from social evils for building a better society. Baba Shinder Singh thanked the gathering and urged people to fight against social evils.

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