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Archaeological Experiential Museum

Opened in January 2025, the Archaeological Experiential Museum in Vadnagar presents over 2,500 years of continuous habitation through a combination of excavated material and…

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Living Museum of Mizo Culture

Inaugurated in October 2025, the Living Museum features live demonstrations of traditional Mizo village life. The aim to design this ‘living museum’ was to familiarise the…

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Miller Museum of Anamorphic Art

The Miller Museum of Anamorphic Art emerges from the long held vision of artist Shereen Miller, who spent over five decades living across continents before returning to India.…

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UH-3H Helicopter Museum

The Helicopter Museum in Visakhapatnam presents the history and engineering of helicopters within the context of India’s naval aviation. Developed by the Visakhapatnam…

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Leisure and Learning: Play Through Time

The idea of play itself is de-stressing, allowing a pause from life, something which lies outside of work and responsibility. However, across centuries, play has never been…

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The People’s Charter

As Cultre undertook the research, design, curation, and execution of the Constitution Museum and the Rights and Freedoms Academy at the O. P. Jindal Global University, my team and…

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The Subaltern Across the Seas

Most histories of India's global presence focus on temples and texts, buddhists and brahmins. But the history of Indians on the move overseas is diverse, involving seaborne…

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Birdspotting: Gliding Through Indian Visual Culture

Birds have always held a special place in our visual and cultural imagination. They glide easily between earth and sky, between the seen and the unseen, meanings that often go…

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Persianate Inscriptions of the Hyderabad Museum

Hyderabad Museum, better known as the Telangana State Archeology Museum, houses a remarkable collection of inscriptions from different ages and dynasties that often remain hidden…

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The Ghost Garden of Byculla: Trail of a Fallen Empire

Beyond the beautiful Palladian-style museum, a meticulously curated vitrine of the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum (formerly the Victoria and Albert Museum), lies a silent, outdoor stone…

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The Many Faces of the Divine

Tucked within the campus of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, the Rai Bahadur Dr. Hiralal Archaeological Museum stands as a quiet repository of Vidarbha’s past.…

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The Language of Flowers

From the 2025 edition of Museum Mosaic. Explore the complete published feature.

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Relics of Faith and Return

In Michael H. Hart’s well-known book, The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, Gautama Buddha is frequently placed in the top five. He is acknowledged for…

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The Elephant Carries the Sky

Few creatures have carried the weight of the cultural imagination of the Indian subcontinent like the elephant. At once majestic and intimate, earthly and divine, the elephant…

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Threads and Traditions

India’s rich tapestry of fabrics was all the rage for centuries, even millennia, before the Pradas and Versaces of the world came to be. Charred remains of cotton cloth, dated…

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