The Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum (LD Museum) is a division of the Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology and is located in central Ahmedabad. Since its inception in 1956, the L.D. Institute of Indology has been collecting and preserving rare manuscripts and artifacts,...
The Covid-19 pandemic may be the catalyst for transforming the Indian museum sector. Whether it is the Government Museum (Chennai), the Indian Museum (Kolkata) or the Napier Museum (Trivandrum), it has been a largely public-funded set-up with a bureaucratic and...
In the first part of the article, I had shared some of my observations and learnings from my year long research stay in Germany as a Humboldt Fellow. I wrote about the need to adopt an integrated approach towards learning such that various departments in a museum work...
The German Chancellor Fellowship awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2018 afforded me the opportunity to study diverse approaches to education in German museums. (Read more about my project here). In this two-part series, I will share some of my...
IT has been more than a decade, yet my memories of the day often resurface. I fear losing the details with each retelling, giving them subtle variations. But some stories must be retold and the risk of chiselling the narrative is worth taking. This for me is one of...
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