Collections Corner is an online initiative aimed at highlighting objects of art, collections and pieces of obscurity from museums and galleries across India that visitors should know more about. This month, we feature artifacts from the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City...
Rereeti founder-director Tejshvi Jain was a participant at the recently concluded 4th Museums and the Web Asia Conference 2015, held from October 5 to 8, at Melbourne, Australia. Here, she shares highlights from the pre-conference workshops. Over the last few weeks we...
A museum becomes truly accessible not just by addressing physical and social barriers in accessibility, but also by crafting introspective spaces for visitors as they visit galleries, writes Nilofar Shamim Haja. Image: National Museum of the American Indian, New...
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...
India is on the cusp of an unprecedented museum development movement. It played host to the Eighth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum in August 2015, a research conference where participants gathered to figure out how Indian museums could become...
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