Biennales as a Cultural Mosaic
Biennales are known for increasing accessibility and the democratisation of the arts and culture sector. Museum Biennales brings together collections from museums to create a place for engagement and receptivity. Duly crafted experiences and thoughtfully employed curatorial strategies take museums beyond what is seen as a mere treasury. With the objective of filling the gap between art, architecture, culture and memory, they are an initiative to contextualise and review our past, present, and future with immersive experiences, symposiums, exhibitions amongst others.
Go Make Museums Accessible Digitally
Architect Siddhant Shah is an accessibility expert and founder of Access For ALL, an organisation that aims at creating inclusive cultural experiences for all. He is a Global Consultant and is currently the Access Consultant to the British Council India and for the Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya. He conducted a workshop on how to make online content accessible and inclusive. In the digital age, managing digital content in a way that caters to all is a necessity. Digital accessibility runs across websites, social media in all formats, vlogs, blogs, digital interface, YouTube channels, digital hardware and software.
Prioritising Human Resources in Museums:Wellbeing, Upskilling and Growth of Museum Professionals
Museums are key contributors to the well-being and to the sustainable development of communities, and can play a key role in bringing about positive change. They can be drivers of creating inclusive and healthy work environments where importance is given to developing skill-sets of their staff, while also prioritising their mental health and wellbeing. Building on this narrative, the panellists discuss the need to prioritise Human Resources in Museums.
Museum Momentum: Digital exhibitions and curatorial experiments
Since the pandemic struck, the cultural landscape has been highly digitised and a variety of strategies have been utilised to migrate from the physical to the virtual. Social media, online resources, softwares have become integral to curate online experiences. Bhanu Ghalot is the Project Head of Un.Divided Identities, ReReeti Foundation and she discusses the role of digital exhibitions in museums.
TECHNOLOGY IS REWRITING THE MUSEUM EXPERIENCE SCRIPT
In this blog, we discuss the experiences generated by technology in Indian museums and how it is altering and rewriting the visitor experience through mobile applications, audio guides, QR codes, animation films, and virtual walk-throughs that have sparked a new life into digital experimentation.
Museums without walls: ecomuseums and living cultural heritage
In this blog, we discuss the idea of Ecomuseums and their objective to preserve and promote living cultural heritage with examples of ecomuseums around the world.
CRAFTING SUBJECTS IN MUSEUM EDUCATION
In this talk, Dr. Savita Kumari, discussed about the changing landscape of museum education and its need to adopt current trends in the country. She also shed a light on the opportunities and careers in the museum sector.
Museum Journey: Physical to Virtual
In this blog, we discuss the role of information technology in transforming museum collections, preserving them, and making them virtually accessible all across the world.
New technologies, new narratives
In this talk, Brendan Ciecko sheds light on the possibilities offered by digital tools to reveal new narratives in museum space. He also shared his insights on how technologies can help museums to understand and engage with their visitors and members.
Four technologies that are transforming museum experience
In this blog, we discuss the technologies that museums are leveraging to curate a riveting experience for visitors. Technology is helping to bring visitors closer than ever to a museum, and the history a museum is trying to convey.
Sensitivity, Visibility, Inclusivity: A conversation on making museums accessible with Siddhant Shah
In this talk, Siddhant Shah shares his personal and professional experience and shed light on the recent efforts made to make Indian museums more accessible and inclusive. This talk focuses on strategies museums can use to involve those with sensory impairments or learning disabilities and discusses the factors which hinder accessibility in museums.
Initiative towards Climate Change by Indian Museums
In this blog, we highlight the initiatives taken by the Indian museums for addressing the issue of climate change. And also realising its role in improving society by raising issues of the contemporary times and creating a positive difference.
ANIMATING THE INANIMATE: A Talk With Prof. A. Damodaran
The Centre for Museums hosted its first talk ‘Animating the Inanimate’ with Prof. A. Damodaran. Professor Damodaran has been faculty with the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore since 2005. He has recently published a book, Managing Arts in Times of Pandemics and Beyond. The talk focuses on the pandemic-induced changes in the concept of art and museums. It also touches upon virtual space technologies and blockchains in the domain of museums and art.
MUMMIES IN INDIA, WITHIN AND WITHOUT MUSEUMS
In this blog post, we have a look at the ritualistic concept of mummies and the process of mummification, as well as some places in India where we can see Egyptian mummies.
Museum Influencers of India, 2022
In our second edition of the Museum Influencers List, we recognise and celebrate the achievements of some museum professionals who have adopted new engagement, education and dissemination strategies.
In Pursuit of Excellence
An interview series with classical dance maestros of India. In this series, the maestros reflected on their journeys and spoke about their influences and innovations to the dance form as well as the challenges they faced.