Three leading Indian museums—the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Museum of Art and Photography, and Bhau Daji Lad City Museum—collaborated to host the touring exhibition “Eckart Muthesius and Manik Bagh – Pioneering Modernism in India.” Curated by Raffael Dedo Gadebusch of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, the exhibition explored the influential role of Eckart Muthesius and the Manik Bagh palace in shaping Indian modernism, featuring rare photographs, drawings, and design studies.

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Originally published in Museum Mosaic 2024, published May 2025.

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