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.
Membership
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Join the walks and talksMembership is open to anyone who cares for Uttarakhand's heritage.

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Garhwal

Uttarkashiउत्तरकाशी

Carved doorways and brackets of the Rawain and Yamuna valley temples, cut from deodar.

Crafts
Chapters
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The carved wooden Someshwar temple at Osla village, Uttarkashi — Someshwar temple, Osla, Uttarkashi. Photo: Anjan Kumar Kundu, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Crafts made here

शिल्प

Temple woodcarving
Carved doorways and brackets of the Rawain and Yamuna valley temples, cut from deodar.
Also made in Pauri and Tehri
Wool weaving
Also made in Tehri
Nettle and bhimal fibre
Also made in Chamoli, Pithoragarh and Tehri
Angora wool
Also made in Bageshwar, Chamoli, Pithoragarh and Tehri
Water-lathe woodturning

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.

Chapters

शाखाएँ

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