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Trade Facilitation Center and Craft Museum Varanasi (TFC)

January 2, 2019

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Varanasi, the land of lord Shiva is also land of many ancient and exquisite arts. To boost moral of Such artists by providing a platform to showcase their art, the TFC (Pd. Deendayal Hastkala Sankul) is an art museum with distinct galleries like textile, hand loom, carpet, wood carving and many more.

Why Stopover?

Expanding its reach in a perimeter of 8 acres, the Trade Facilitation Center here is an addition to its uncountable attractions. The museum is an exuberant display of all the classic art and crafts of Varanasi under one roof. The Craft museum also allows its visitors to buy these pieces of art, directly from the artist, taking a bar from all the mediators.

How to Reach?

The Museum is situated at a distance of 8 km from Varanasi Cantt Railway station towards Bada Lalpur area of Varanasi. There are plenty of private cabs and e-rickshaws to reach the museum. The premises are open between 11:30am to 7:30pm, from Tuesday to Sunday. visitor should keep in mind, the museum is closed on Mondays

Direction Official Website +91 05422290642, +91 9455791639

Galleries

Handicraft Gallery

From brightly colored beautiful toys to mesmerizingly crafted metal and wooden artworks, the handicraft gallery is present on first floar to offer glimpse of the age old tradition of handicraft in Varanasi.

Textile Gallery

The elegant Banarasi Sarees are always high in demand, all thanks to its fine quality and beautiful Zari work. The textile gallery has a very illustrated display depicting various schools of hand loom from various prat of Uttar Pradesh.

Carpet Gallery

The history of the Bhadohi carpets dates backs to more than 400 years. Every minute details of these fine quality hand woven carpets has been taken care by artisans. Mirzapur Daris with its vibrant design along with other works is on display at ground floor.

Museum Shops

A very unique platform availed to those interested in GI products, i.e Geographically Indicated products. These are the products with specific quality and reputation due to their certain geographical origin. Varanasi is the hub of GI products. Trade Facilitation Center is providing a unique consumer-artist interface in the form of Museum shops.

Uttar Pradesh owns the exorbitant specimen of art and craft that had attracted and awestricken people for more than a millennial now. Enormous architectural designs, sculptures and details attracts the tourists to visit UP, again and again,. Millions of people are involved in handicrafts weaving sector that make up 26% participation of India’s 24392.39 crores handicraft export, the highest in the country. The crafts are one of their kinds and are produced with massive caliber and patience and bear rich traditional value that entitled them with geographical Indication (GI) certification. it ensures the uniqueness about the origin of these products worldwide.

There are more than 20 handicrafts bearing GI certification from Uttar Pradesh. Even the Purvanchal has emerged as a hub of GI tagged products with more than 10 unique handicraft products .