MONUMENT VISIT REPORT

MONUMENT VISIT REPORT

KUTHIRA MALIKA PALACE
(PUTHEN MALIGA PALACE MUSEUM )

INTRODUCTION

Inside the classroom we can read ,listen,write, and talkabout different topics or sees them or pictures where we are able to use our imagination and only ourimagination sets the limit.A study tour is an experience where students study themselves .Study tour help students open themselves to many possiblities that are not just contained in one geographical location or ultra no matter how much students learnduring study tour,their favourite moment may be based on their enjoyment of the day

OBJECTIVES

• To understand the history of the kuthiramalika palace

• To create knowledge of travancore royal family

• To develop the qualities like observation and implementary skills among students

• To provide awarness about historical monuments study 

REPORT

Fathima memorial training college organized a one day field trip to thiruvananthapuram .tour was being planned and cordinated through college union. around 10 teachers and 98 students were a part of this tour .which commenced on 16th november 2017,we social science students choose kuthiramalika palace as our monument visit

kuthiramalika is a wonderful wooden palace build by swathi thirunal balarama varma in 1840s .the palace got its name from 122 horses that are curved into the wooden wall bracket that support the southern roof gave it the name kuthiramalika .swathi thirunal lived here less than a year just before his death . after that the complex was locked up till recently .it is believed that swathi thirunal wrote some of the his important works sitting in a chamber inside this palace from where he could get a reare view of the temple ,and the belives was that the death happend due to the mistake in following the vasthu sasthra .

According to vasthusasthra  the entrance of the palace must be facingthe eastern side the mistake here was the door was nottowards the east. After more than a century it was opened in 1995 after rectifying the mistake in placing the main door.it was said by the guides present there that around 5000sculptors from thanchavoor worked for 4 years to complete the wooden architectural wonder with exquisite wood curvings.  among the 80 rooms of this palace only 20 are open for public to visit also the palace provided expert guides who know the travancoor history very well to help the visitors