Mukherjee championed the Museum on Wheels — a bus that introduces themes in art history to school students across Maharashtra. In March 2014, after showcasing the 5th century BC Cyrus Cylinder inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform script from the British Museum, I told (former British Museum director) Neil (MacGregor) about my desire to showcase India's art, history and culture in 100 Indian objects in the context of world events. While Indians are not exposed to world cultures because art history is not taught in school, the world sees Indian arts as crafts because we did not inscribe them with names or dates. In the exhibition, India becomes the portal through which the visitors will travel to the rest of the world. For the first time in India, about 50 directors from America and Europe's top museums, including Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Metropolitan Museum of Art (MeT) and the Louvre, will visit an Indian museum's exhibition together.

Source: dna November 05, 2017 01:52 UTC