How well do you know India? This Independence Day weekend, here are 10 museums to test your GKThis I-Day weekend, engage in some time travel and visit these museums to unravel more about our history.
Gaitonde’s 'Untitled', estimated at Rs 30 cr, to go under the hammer; Khakhar's 'Tradesman' to debutWorks by Ram Kumar, SH Raza and KH Ara will also be on auction.
CSMVS Director General Sabyasachi Mukherjee says next-gen interested in past, want to know about their rootsMukherjee feels there is a huge, cultural hunger in the country.
Art education on Gayatri Ruia's mind; she wants museum visits with kidsThe Phoenix Mills director said that museum visits have always been an important part of her life.
Technology is gradually changing India’s museumsWhile digitisation has reinvented museums in the West, turning them into vibrant cultural spaces, its presence in India is limited.
Railways' plan to turn CSMT into museum chugs into controversyWhile the architects say it is "difficult" and "impractical" to turn it into a museum, the railway unions say relocation will cause inconve...
Practicality over ambition? How the British Museum and CSMVS curated over 200 artefacts for an exhibit in MumbaiSome artefacts that the British Museum wanted to display in Mumbai were too fragile for transportation.
How artefacts from London's British Museum journeyed to an exhibition in MumbaiThe Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya is currently hosting an ambitious exhibit in Mumbai.
From Kailash Mansarovar to Croagh Patrick in Ireland, Vijay Crishna's obsession for walkingFor the executive director of Godrej & Boyce, the love affair with walking started at an early age.
Coming together for art! Artefacts from the British museum soon to be in Mumbai & Delhi'India and the World: A History in Nine Stories' will showcase works of art from the Indian Subcontinent along with iconic pieces from the ...
Time travel: 5,000 years of history in fifty invaluable artefacts on display at CSMVS100 more objects will be worked on in the next two years, & similar exhibits will follow.
Natural history museums must now tell more about climate change, biodiversity and human-wildlife coexistenceThe fires in Delhi and Kolkata have been traumatic, but if they can shake museum curators away from the old displays, they might still serv...
Zia Mody, Subramaniam and Mala Ramadorai attend a talk at CSMVSThe three were attending a talk by historian Ramchandra Guha and Harvard University professor Diana Eck at CSMVS in Mumbai.
Madame Tussauds to open in DelhiThe wax museum, will open in New Delhi for Bollywood stars, as part of the India-UK Year of Culture in 2017.
Museum’s turnaround makes historySabyasachi Mukherjee, director of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, drew in the crowds and reversed the fortunes of the city’...
- Exhibition in Mumbai on New York's historic buildings
A photo exhibition showcasing the historic buildings of New York opended at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) in M...