The directors of three museums - Victoria Memorial Hall (VMH) and the Indian Museum in Calcutta and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) in Mumbai - got together at the western quadrangle of Victoria Memorial Hall on January 30 to talk about how museums should go beyond their limited role. Jayanta Sengupta, the secretary and curator of Victoria Memorial Hall, dwelt on the tussle between imperialism and nationalism that his institution faced. Rajesh Purohit, the director of the Indian Museum, said encyclopaedic museums should ideally integrate people through the stories that their exhibits tell. Sabyasachi Mukherjee, the director-general of CSMVS-Mumbai, spoke of the hard work that went behind the India and the World exhibition. "The India and the World exhibition focuses on how people from a single nation can preserve their different identities," Mukherjee said.

Source: The Telegraph February 02, 2018 22:41 UTC