विरासत · Living heritage
उत्तराखण्ड की जीवित विरासत
Crafts, museums, heritage walks and conservation work from the four Uttarakhand chapters of INTACH.
न्यास · The trust
INTACH Uttarakhand is the state arm of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, founded in 1984. Its four chapters document living crafts, conserve buildings such as Shore's Well and the Lansdowne Cemetery, support a community of ten small museums, and take schools out onto the heritage trails.
Visit INTACH, New Delhi(opens in a new tab)शिल्प · The crafts
Copper is still beaten in Almora's Tamta Mohalla, ringal is woven in Chamoli, and wool runs on the Bhotia looms of Munsiyari. Choose a district on the map.
देहरादून · Dehradun, Garhwal
The curved blade of the Gorkha soldier, shaped and finished by hand in a city with a long Gorkha history.
Photo from INTACH coming soon
हरिद्वार · Haridwar, Garhwal
Haridwar's heritage lives in its ghats and temples, among them the Ganga Mandir that INTACH is conserving. Its crafts are still being documented.
INTACH is recording this district's crafts now. If you know a maker here, tell the State Chapter.
उत्तरकाशी · Uttarkashi, Garhwal
Carved doorways and brackets of the Rawain and Yamuna valley temples, cut from deodar.
Photo from INTACH coming soon
टिहरी गढ़वाल · Tehri Garhwal, Garhwal
Bast fibre stripped from the bhimal tree, long twisted into rope and now spun into cloth.
पौड़ी गढ़वाल · Pauri Garhwal, Garhwal
Baskets, mats and winnowers woven from ringal, the slender hill bamboo of the Garhwal forests.
रुद्रप्रयाग · Rudraprayag, Garhwal
Wooden masks carved for village ritual. Rudraprayag is also home to Ghimatoli's Pandav Nritya, which INTACH has recorded on film.
चमोली · Chamoli, Garhwal
Masks carved in Saloor-Dungra for Ramman, the ritual theatre on UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage.
Photo from INTACH coming soon
अल्मोड़ा · Almora, Kumaon
Copper vessels hammered by the Tamta coppersmiths of Almora, a craft that goes back to the court of the Chand kings.
नैनीताल · Nainital, Kumaon
Baskets and lampshades woven from ringal in the villages around the lakes.
Photo from INTACH coming soon
ऊधम सिंह नगर · Udham Singh Nagar, Kumaon
Baskets and mats coiled from moonj grass by the Tharu community of the Terai.
Photo from INTACH coming soon
बागेश्वर · Bageshwar, Kumaon
Needlework from the Mandalsera cluster near Bageshwar town.
चम्पावत · Champawat, Kumaon
Stone carving from Kali Kumaon, the old name for the hills around Champawat.
पिथौरागढ़ · Pithoragarh, Kumaon
Thulma blankets, chutka rugs and dan carpets from the Bhotia looms of Munsiyari and Dharchula.
Ten small museums, from the Rung Museum in Darchula to the Soham Himalayan Centre in Mussoorie, work as one community. Each keeper picks an Ek Khass Cheez, the one object a visitor should not miss.
See the ten museums(on Uttarakhand Tourism, opens in a new tab)
Landour bazaar, Benog Hill, the abandoned village of Bor Gaon and the Old Cart Road from Lansdowne: chapter members lead walks in every season.
Find the next walk(on Instagram, opens in a new tab)
Graves from the early 1900s at the Lansdowne Cemetery, restored in December 2025 and January 2026 with the Garhwal Rifles. Shore's Well in Dehradun is next.
Conservation at INTACH(opens in a new tab)
Ten small museums presented their newest collections to the Secretary, Culture, in an online session.
Two days on elephants, forest corridors and culture with WWF, the Wildlife Institute of India and Doon University.
100 students from 10 schools painted the heritage trees of Rangers College, from where forestry in India began.
A cemetery from the early 1900s, repaired with the Garhwal Rifles Regimental Centre and the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia.
Anthropologist Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger read from her years of recording the shopkeepers of Landour.
Bird-watching where the Kohlu and Khoh rivers meet, one of the new Kotdwar chapter's first walks.
Members walked the Forest Research Institute campus as part of the Historic Cities Series, Dehradun edition.
A rare 35mm slide show of Swami Sundaranand's photographs, from high passes to the 1986 Kumbh Mela.
Author Prachi Raturi Misra on recipes gathered from Garhwal, Kumaon and Jaunsar-Bawar, with songs from the women who shared them.
शाखाएँ · The chapters
The state chapter runs the work that crosses districts: the Uttarakhand Museum Community, Gaja Utsav, the restored Lansdowne Cemetery and the proposed conservation of Shore's Well.
Heritage quizzes for forty schools, teacher workshops with the Forest Department, a city photography competition, and the Historic Cities Series discussion on Dehradun's heritage.
Walks from Landour Bazaar to Benog Hill, the Landour Lecture Series with the Mussoorie Heritage Centre, and a walk with Geological Survey of India scientists past the fossils of Gun Hill.
The newest chapter, formed in 2025: forest trails through Saneh and Hanumangarhi, the Old Cart Road towards Lansdowne, and third place in the state heritage quiz in its first year.
Membership is open to anyone who cares for Uttarakhand's heritage. Members join the walks and talks, volunteer at events, and support conservation across the state.
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