• Working Title: The Museum of the Himalayas. • General Task: To built a new Natural History Museum in Nepal, Kathmandu • Objectives: To find a presentation being feasable to match national and international requirements from subject of museology already represented by its architectonical structure. • Requirements: Implementation of a holistic approach to give the museum such a reputation that it will become a conservation and education centre and to rank amongst world’s top museums in the Himalayan region.

Up to now there is no Natural History Museum existing dealing with the Himalayas as an entity. This could be best realized in the real center of the Himalayan orogenetic complex of whole Peninsula India, thus Nepal. The new National Museum for Natural History should reflect the whole hinduistic philosophy and under such idealistic patronage showing the whole never ending life circuit being throwned by the snow and ice realm of the Himalaya with its holy mountains giving birth - continuous flow of geology (steady upraisal and erosion), evolution of life and climatology - for big river systems focusing in the holy Ganga and coming back from oceans via clouds and precipitations again to snow and ice. Under such a philosophical umbrella, the manyfold aspects of Natural History and Ethnology ranging from High Mountain areas via Mahabharats’ mid-lands, Terai and Siwaliks to the Ganga lowlands could be presented. The ecological and ethnological differences of people, fauna and flora with all there variations from east to west Nepal (and neighbouring areas perhaps) can be realized by the architectonical construction being presented.

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