INTACH Uttarakhand

Plan a visit
Garhwal
Kumaon
Thirteen districts, A to ZEach with its crafts, its fairs and the work INTACH does there.
Crafts to look for
Fairs and festivals
Ten small museums, one communityCopper, ringal and wool from the keepers of the Uttarakhand Museum Community.
Conservation
Documentation, research and books
Programmes
- Uttarakhand Museum Community
- Historic Cities Series
Lansdowne Cemetery, restoredGraves from the early 1900s, repaired with the Garhwal Rifles.
The four chapters
Kotdwar, the newest chapterFormed in 2025: forest trails, river birding and the Old Cart Road.
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Join the walks and talksMembership is open to anyone who cares for Uttarakhand's heritage.

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Kumaon

Nainitalनैनीताल

Baskets and lampshades woven from ringal in the villages around the lakes.

Crafts
INTACH's work
Chapters
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A pilgrim carrying a chhatoli, the ritual umbrella woven from ringal, decorated for the Nanda Devi Raj Jat — Ringal chhatoli, Nanda Devi Raj Jat. Photo: Rajat7878, CC0

Crafts made here

शिल्प

Ringal craft
Baskets and lampshades woven from ringal in the villages around the lakes.
Also made in Almora, Bageshwar, Chamoli, Pauri, Pithoragarh, Rudraprayag and Tehri
Candle making
Cotton weaving in Haldwani
Lantana furniture

Fairs and festivals

मेले और त्योहार

Festival
Phool Deiफूलदेई
The first day of Chaitra, in mid-March
Villages across Kumaon and Garhwal
Children go from house to house leaving fyoli and buransh flowers on each doorstep, a blessing for the year.

INTACH's work here

कार्य

Project
Nainital Lake
Conservation · Nainital
Project
Nainital Lake Library
Conservation · Nainital

Chapters

शाखाएँ

Uttarakhand State Chapterउत्तराखण्ड
Works across all thirteen districts, Nainital among them.
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