Mumbai's Oldest Museum

Formerly the Victoria and Albert Museum

Mumbai's Oldest Museum

Formerly the Victoria and Albert Museum

The Museum
Collection

Permanent Exhibit

THE WITNESS

By Nalini Malani

Curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta and Johan Pijnappel

Jan 11, 2020 - Mar 31, 2020

We Wear Culture

Virtual Exhibition

In collaboration with Google Arts & Culture

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Guided Tours, Workshops, Free Activity Days

Post Graduate Diploma Course

Modern and Contemporary Indian Art and Curatorial Studies

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This exhibition is in association with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai and is supported by Volte Art Projects.
Exhibition

THE WITNESS

By Nalini Malani
Jan 11, 2020 - Mar 31, 2020

Curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta and Johan Pijnappel
Engage with the Museum collection and contemporary exhibitions critically and creatively through interpretive gallery visits and workshops! For all age-groups.
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Post 1857 the British Indian government sanctioned ethnographic surveys across India. This resulted in large scale works like 'The Oriental Races and Tribes' comprising 50 studio photographs of Mumbai communities, montaged against popular city views. Here, two women wearing traditional Maharashtrian sarees, with a Kashmiri shawl wrapped around them, stand against the backdrop image of the Dhakaleshwar temple.
Object Of The Month
Collection

Object Of The Month

Parbhu Women of Bombay, albumen print, from 'The Oriental Races and Tribes' by W. J. Johnson, Vol 2, 1863-66, London
Video

Restoration and Revitalization

02/2020

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Explore the Museum from anywhere! Take a tour, discover the collection and its stories, curate a personal selection of your favourite objects and share this with others.
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The talk will focus on Portuguese Goa’s centuries-old music and dance history that encompasses European sacred and secular genres of motets, contradanças, polkas, waltzes, as much as the local genres of mandos, dulpods, and dekhnis. It will discuss the local identities that emerged through this unique cross-cultural transfusion and the fate of an inherited mixed culture in a post-colonial framework.

Upcoming Events

Public Lecture | Creolisation between Oceans and the Music and Dance of Goa - An Ibero-Indian Rhapsody

by Prof. Ananya Kabir
FEB 22, 2020      6:00 PM - 07:30 PM
The Museum is in the process of creating a dynamic new identity for itself as a cultural hub in Mumbai. We are excited to welcome a new building, which will be an iconic addition to the architectural and cultural heritage of the city.
Museum of the Future

Museum Expansion

The Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
City Museum seeks to serve the community as an Institution dedicated to excellence in cultural education through exhibitions and unique visual and intellectual media.

An Institution of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai.
Supported by the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation.
Restored by INTACH, Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage

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