PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: PHYTOPIA

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: PHYTOPIA

The Covid-19 pandemic has compelled cultural spaces like museums and galleries to quickly adapt to the internet to stay relevant and continue to deliver their programmes. We at Science Gallery Bengaluru took the challenge to implement our digital strategy ahead of its...
A Peek Inside Sunny’s Gramophone Museum and Archive

A Peek Inside Sunny’s Gramophone Museum and Archive

Discs and Machines is the only Gramophone Museum cum Archive of audio recordings in India (excluding smaller record collections found in many parts of India). Gramophone records, tapes and other mediums of audio recordings and gramophones and other playback machines...
How Indian Museums Can Transform Post Pandemic

How Indian Museums Can Transform Post Pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic may be the catalyst for transforming the Indian museum sector. Whether it is the Government Museum (Chennai), the Indian Museum (Kolkata) or the Napier Museum (Trivandrum), it has been a largely public-funded set-up with a bureaucratic and...
Talking Museums: Preparing for a Post-COVID World

Talking Museums: Preparing for a Post-COVID World

We spent the last month designing and conducting focus group discussions with 27 museums across India as part of our Talking Museums: Preparing for a Post-COVID World series. This is an ongoing initiative by ReReeti Foundation that aims to create a space for sharing...
The Way Forward: Museum Education in India – Part II

The Way Forward: Museum Education in India – Part II

In the first part of the article, I had shared some of my observations and learnings from my year long research stay in Germany as a Humboldt Fellow. I wrote about the need to adopt an integrated approach towards learning such that various departments in a museum work...

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