Immerse in this new gallery at CSMVS that showcases the earliest civilisations

Updated On: 13 December, 2025 08:45 AM IST | Mumbai | Fiona Fernandez

The blockbuster gallery Networks of the Past that opens today at CSMVS, marks a milestone in Mumbai and India’s cultural timeline, with a collaboration linking Indian and global museums, with over 250 objects that showcase and connect the world’s earliest civilisations, from Harappa to Persia and China

The gallery is the India`s first ancient world gallery, and offers a peek into the Harappans’ advanced quality of life and town planning, which appeared in our history books. Pics/Kirti Surve Parade

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When we approach the Rotunda on the ground floor of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), the worker bee-like activity is hard to miss. It’s the final thrust before Networks of the Past: A Study Gallery of India and the Ancient World — the new educational initiative supported through Getty’s Sharing Collections Program, opens to the public. The mammoth collaborative project brings together CSMVS with the British Museum, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Museum Rietberg (Zurich), the Al-Sabah Collection (Kuwait), the Benaki Museum (Athens), and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Athens, Ministry of Culture, Greece.

The undeciphered Harappan script