Museums

Lounge

How international museums are taking India's art, fashion legacy to the world

Museums are now going beyond colonial collections to showcase the wider world of South Asia

7 min read3 Feb 2023
Opinion

Opinion | The misery that life would be if the arts lost economic viability

Artists evoke new feelings, spur ideas and stir our imaginations to generate value in subtle ways

4 min read29 Apr 2020
Lounge

Bring the museums into your home

As the coronavirus shuts down exhibitions, museums and galleries have taken to virtual showcases to connect with viewers

3 min read4 Apr 2020
Lounge

Bring the museums into your home

As the coronavirus shuts down exhibitions, museums and galleries have taken to virtual showcases to connect with viewers

3 min read4 Apr 2020
Mint-lounge

Heritage Transport Museum: a museum with a difference

Heritage Transport Museum is rewriting the rules for Indian museums, by bringing together art, design and history

4 min read30 Mar 2018
Mint-lounge

On fixing India's cultural spaces

In India, home to the most phenomenal of wonders, the question, given the state of our museums, is whether, in the first place, most of us would even consider walking in

4 min read24 Mar 2018
Technology

Smartify: Art in your pocket

Smartify, an image-recognition app for identifying artworks, enriches the way one experiences art

2 min read20 Oct 2017
Politics

ASI bans selfie sticks at 46 museums in India

Visitors wanting to use multiple lenses, tripod monopods or carry large photography bags have to get prior permission from ASI provided they use them for academic purposes

2 min read5 Jul 2017
Opinion

Process over products, museums over textbooks

Museums offer up to the public the objects of our history with slightly less context than you would find in a textbook

4 min read25 May 2017
Mint-lounge

Tickets to science travel

The Lounge guide to immersive museums that explain everything from evolution to astrotourism

5 min read14 Apr 2017