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KSRTC Art Museum in Thiruvananthapuram traces its transport history over nine decades

The District Transport Office building near the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus depot at East Fort, Thiruvananthapuram, opposite Gandhi Park, presents an unassuming facade. The entry to the newly-inaugurated museum wing in the office is marked by coloured plastic chairs placed on both sides of the pathway. The concrete floors and whitewashed walls…

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TU-142 Museum to be closed September 1-2

Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority (VMRDA) Commissioner K.S. Viswanathan on Friday (August 29, 2025) notified that the TU-142 Museum on the Beach Road will be closed for visitors on September 1 and 2, 2025, due to maintenance works. The museum will re-open on September 3, 2025, he said in a release issued here. READ MORE…

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Hyderabad’s Salar Jung Museum to host Harvest 2025, featuring artworks of masters and emerging names

An artwork by Satish Gujral | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Four galleries of the Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad, will host Harvest 2025 from August 31 — an exhibition of paintings, sculptures, installations and textiles by leading and emerging Indian artists. On view will be works by Sakti Burman, S.H. Raza, Sanjay Bhattacharyya, Satish Gujral, M.F….

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Scientists call for digital transition of Bengaluru’s VITM on diamond jubilee

Visitors at the newly inaugurated ‘Fun Science Gallery’ as part of the diamond Jubilee celebrations of the Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum in Bengaluru on Sunday. | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum (VITM), a landmark scientific institution located in Bengaluru, celebrated its diamond jubilee on Sunday. The museum was inaugurated on…

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What ails the Indian museum today?

What is a museum, really? A building that houses objects? A temple of knowledge? A vault of the past? Or a theatre of the present? The answers are as complex as the institution’s foundational contradiction. Museums claim to preserve and protect, but they also curate and construct. The question of publicness is key. For most…

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