First ever Multimedia Sikh Museum in Canada to open in Mississauga
First of its kind in Canada Multimedia Sikh Museum will open in Missisauga. The museum will be created by Ontario Khalsa Darbar, one of the largest Sikh temples in Canada, with the support of other Sikh leaders such as Baba Sewa Singh. Building the multimedia collection will be a responsibility of Dr. Raghbir Singh Bains, a Canadian Sikh and the author of the Encyclopaedia of Sikhism.
The museum will be free of charge to visitors. It will contain more than 50,000 multi-language text pages, thousands of pictures, graphics, audios, videos and sparkling animations. The museum will cover Sikh religion, its chronological history, culture, social value system, heritage, Sikh institutions, beliefs, ceremonies, customs, traditions, and Sikh Code of Conduct. It will provide detailed information about alcohol and drugs, domestic violence, AIDS, social evils like rapes, girl feticide and prostitution rampant in the world. It will also provide comparative briefs of the teachings of world faiths, practices, their founders and much more with simple touch on the screen.