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Mumbai

Visit the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum via this Photo Gallery!

Museum objects are time machines. They allow us a peek into a civilization long past or bring us close to today’s issues. Mumbai: A City through Objects tells the story of a city through unique objects in the collection of the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, the erstwhile Victoria and Albert Museum, Bombay.

Witness some stunning artefacts from the museum in this photo gallery!

Mumbai: A City Through Objects - 101 Stories from the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum

The Byculla Club, Cecil Burns; print. S. Sheppard. The Byculla Club, 1833-1916, A History, 1916, Bombay.

 

Mumbai: A City Through Objects - 101 Stories from the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum

Landing Ice at Bombay; engraving, J.I.V. The Graphic, volume XVIII, no. 466, November 2, 1878, Bombay. Accessioned: 2014.

 

Mumbai: A City Through Objects - 101 Stories from the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum

The Exodus from Bombay, Amedee Forestier; offset print, 1897, Bombay. Accessioned: 2013.

 

Mumbai: A City Through Objects - 101 Stories from the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum

Red, Blue, and White, Lotus of Hindostan, coloured plate, James Forbes, Oriental Memoirs: A Narrative of Seventeen Years Residence in India, Vol III, London: White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813. Accessioned: early twentieth century.

 

Mumbai: A City Through Objects - 101 Stories from the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum

Bombay Servants; reproduction of a hand-coloured photograph, FM Coleman, Typical Pictures of Indian Natives, Bombay: The Times of India Press, 1899. Accessioned: 2013.

 

Mumbai: A City Through Objects - 101 Stories from the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum

There Comes Papa, Raja Ravi Varma; oil on canvas, 1893, Trivandrum. Courtesy: Travancore Royal Family, Kowdiar Palace, Thiruvananthapuram.

 

Mumbai: A City Through Objects - 101 Stories from the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum

Mumbai: A City Through Objects - 101 Stories from the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum

 

Mumbai
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Museum objects are time machines. They allow us a peek into a civilisation long past or bring us close to today's issues. Mumbai: A City through Objects tells the story of a city through unique objects in the collection of…

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