The quiet of its inside contrasts the giggle-fest of children outside the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum. Our visit coincides with that of primary school students visiting the Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Gardens for the ongoing annual Mumbai Flower Festival. Our focus though is on Reena Saini Kallat’s Cartographies Of The Unseen, the first major exhibition at the museum since its reopening. “Saini Kallat is a very important artist, and is connected to the city’s fabric,” points out Tasneem Zakaria Mehta, curator of the exhibition and director of the museum.

Tasneem Zakaria Mehta (left) and Reena Saini Kallat alongside the latter’s installation, Memoria Corona, at the museum