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Lectures
Urge for Engraving Words for Posterity – Dr Sushmita Basu Majumdar
Persia and Rome: Interactions and Trade Connections - Dr Vesta Sarkhosh
When Barbarians became Kings: The Shakas in India - Prof. Upinder Singh
One Mother, Many Mother Tongues - Prof. Naman Ahuja
No Surplus Food, No Monuments – Dr Kurush F. Dalal
The Indus Civilization Looking Back at its Discovery – Dr Nayanjyot Singh Lahiri
Travelling with the Ancients - Dr. Shailendra Bhandare
Mythologies on Ancient Greek Vases – Dr David Saunders
Dionysos and Ancient Rome by Dr Thorsten Opper
Learning Resources
Programmes
The Trunk Museum - CSMVS
The Trunk Museum Project consists of trunks curated on themes relevant to students and their educational and cultural requirements. The trunks are replete with museum grade replicas of artefacts, flashcards, charts, teaching resources, audio-visuals and worksheets. Handling objects and replicas can create a direct and personal link to the past. It encourages discovery, deeper understanding and critical thinking. It empowers students to feel a sense of ownership towards the museum and its collections. Educators take these trunks to educational institutions and NGOs across Mumbai city and suburbs and conduct sessions in English, Hindi and Marathi depending on the medium of instruction at each venue. The trunks are designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the subject through the use of tactile resources, making cultural experiences more accessible and frequent by bringing the museum experience to the classroom.
Available trunks: Harappan Civilisation, Ancient Egypt, Stone Tools, Ancient Greece and Rome, Journey of Indian Coinage
Museum on Wheels - CSMVS
“If you cannot come to the Museum, the Museum will come to you”
The flagship Citi-CSMVS Museum on Wheels is a pioneering outreach initiative designed to reach audiences beyond the walls of the Museum, into the far-reaching parts of suburban Mumbai and further into the interiors of the state of Maharashtra and beyond. This initiative is an extension of the Museum’s mandate to be inclusive and to provide universal access, physical as well as intellectual, to the Museum collection and the information it seeks to convey.
State-of-the-art buses travel extensively in the city, suburbs, and rural India, carrying exhibitions on a variety of themes. The customised air-conditioned buses are fully equipped with display cases for objects, demonstration kits, art supplies, audio-visual equipment, and digital interactives. The buses are equipped with a ramp for wheelchair users and has CCTV surveillance for security purposes. The exhibitions and activities are offered to people free of charge.
The buses have travelled to Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi and Haryana to urban and rural venues, offering educational tours in Marathi, Hindi, English, Gujarati and Kannada. Schools, colleges, cultural institutions, museums, historic sites, fairs, housing complexes, neighbourhoods, malls and Government departments invite the buses to be at their venue to be enjoyed by students, children, families, and even the entire local communities. Along with the bus visits, workshops are conducted at venues for students and teachers to maximise their learning and platform the museum as a vital tool in teaching. Collaborations with local communities of artists and craftsmen further the museum’s inclusive approach and also enables the documentation and proliferation of our traditions.
Exhibitions on Museum on Wheels will be curated on themes from the Ancient World to connect remote audiences with the scholarship of the Ancient World Project, and will address school curricula.
Current exhibitions:
Sindhu Sarasvati Civilisation: A Century of Discovery
Networks of the Past: India and the Ancient World