While the Middle East may be late comers to the museum world, this hasn’t stopped an explosion in museums and galleries in the past twenty years. The new museums across the countries of the Middle East with their innovative buildings are filled with highly prized...
Caroline Lang, Former Head of Education and Public Programmes, Hong Kong Maritime Museum shares her experience of working in an Asian museum and points out the difference she saw in comparison to museums in London. ...
Policy makers and institutions need to take the lead with inclusionary practices for persons with disabilities within cultural spaces, writes Abhishek Ray. In the dawn of India’s museum development, we have seen the birth of new museums and the growth of the existing...
In this three-part series, Poulomi Das will take us through the history, present and future of museums in India. In this post, we take a walk through the origin of museums. When you visit a museum and look at objects placed within glass cases, some observing you with...
In part 1 of her post on ‘Writing Text for Museums,’ Lucy Harland took us through the guiding principles that curators should keep in mind while drafting signage. In part 2 of this post, the author delves into the intricacies of crafting text for various...
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