Two months back, if you’d asked 18-year-old Rhea Chauhan to spend a day at a museum, the St Xavier’s College student would’ve probably dismissed the idea as boring. Not any more. Chauhan, who enrolled herself for a summer internship with the Education Department at Fort’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), acted as a guide, conducted workshops and planned gallery activities from 9.30 am to 5.30 pm every day of the week. “Earlier, I thought museums meant only dull spaces where visitors walked around and looked at old artefacts. But now, I learnt how a museum actually works; there’s so much going on internally.

(From left) Saniya Shaikh, Meghna Saha and Rhea Chauhan were part of the recently-concluded summer internship programme at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS). Pic/Pradeep Dhivar