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Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum opens a new exhibition
Updated On: 26 May, 2022 11:03 AM IST | Mumbai | Sammohinee Ghosh
As Mumbai’s oldest museum celebrates a 150-year-long legacy, we tour through its new visual spectacle, A Hall of Wonder
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View of the South Court, an illustration from Dickinson’s Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. Bearing testimony to the Western gaze, the elephant symbolises an opulent oriental India. Pics/Sameer Markande
Wandering into wonder is one of those few enduring relationships we build in a lifetime. And hark; we hear that summoning ding of surprise each time it signals. A new display that owes its name and character to a quote by Dr George Birdwood waves us into a historic maze. Long ago, Birdwood had pitched Dr Bhau Daji Lad (BDL) Mumbai City Museum (then Victoria and Albert Museum) as ‘a hall of wonder’ in a botanical garden to raise funds for the repository. Fifteen decades on, the museum bookends its journey with unpublished exhibits that depict the gallery as a key piece of the Rani Baug quarters, heralding art and culture through the past, present and beyond.
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