While you stay at home, BDL Museum helps you creatively engage with a vast selection of artworks from our collections and exhibitions. We are running interactive games and stories that reveal interesting historical facts as well as ideas about contemporary art at the Museum!

MAY 01, 2021           11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Storytelling Session | Folktales from Maharashtra

In collaboration with Kathanika

This Maharashtra Day, hear a timeless, classic grandmother's tale. The storytelling session will be followed by a fun drawing and painting activity.

Conducted by Dr. Sherline Pimenta K, a researcher, experience curator and Master Storyteller at Kathanika. Her interests include narrative studies, experience design, communication design, and visual language. Sherline has a Master in Communication Design and a Ph.D. in Storytelling from IIT Bombay.

MAY 08, 2021           11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Storytelling Session | Lost and Found

Are there villages within cities? Are there ways to identify the original inhabitants of any place?

Join author, editor, storyteller Vinitha in an interactive storytelling session based out of an unnoticed cityscape, where the children are engaged in a deeply layered story. Listen and participate in the story; write, draw and join the conversation!.

Vinitha is an ex-journalist, author, editor, poet and storyteller. Her stories are part of CBSE and ICSE curriculum.

Playlists on Spotify

BDL Museum is now on Spotify!

Ragamalas

Tune into our curated playlist inspired by the BDL Museum's collection of Ragamala miniature paintings! The Ragamalas in the Museum’s collection are from the Jaipur school of miniatures. Ragamala, meaning 'garland of ragas', is a set of miniature paintings that depict personified ragas of Indian classical music. A raga is a melodic framework in Indian classical music with symbolic associations such as seasons, time, and mood. It is meant to evoke certain emotions among the listeners. Ragas also provide room for improvisation to musicians and singers.

The playlist features some of the most celebrated artists in Indian classical music. It begins with spirited morning ragas, progressing into soulful evening ragas.

Mumbai

Tune into our new playlist dedicated to the city of dreams - Mumbai. From 'Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan' to 'Gully Boy', the playlist tries to capture the essence of the city. The playlist features songs of various musical styles that developed against the backdrop of the city, ranging from classic Bhendi Bazaar Gharana that developed in the city in the 1890s to contemporary Bollywood music. The songs selected for the playlist draw inspiration from the city and its people