The Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) is a new museum project in Bangalore centered around a large and varied collection of art, photography, textiles and design, predominantly from the Indian subcontinent. At the heart of MAP’s identity is the idea of tracing and mapping relationships between artistic disciplines – breaking away from older schools of categorisation, and striving instead towards a newer idea of narrative building.
MAP will occupy a 25,000 square feet site in the centre of city – and while this space will be the hub of its activities, the idea of MAP is to exist beyond the four walls of the traditional museum space – actively reaching out to the community through a variety of programmes and projects, including loans, exhibitions, lectures and grants.
Scroll down for more about our vision, current projects, collection and the people behind MAP.
The Museum of Art & Photography has a large and varied collection spanning several genres of art, photography, textiles and design, predominantly from the Indian subcontinent. At the heart of MAP’s identity is the idea of tracing and mapping relationships between artistic disciplines – breaking away from older schools of categorisation, and striving instead towards a newer idea of narrative building.
At MAP, we align ourselves with a global shift towards newer modes of curatorial intervention and an increased recognition of the fundamental role of the museum in arts education. It is our vision to transform the perception of museums and art in India, through affecting a change in arts education and research, a professional approach to collection management processes, and by rethinking how art heritage is presented and objects are defined.
The Indian subcontinent has an extremely rich heritage of diverse artistic, artisanal and architectural traditions, but unfortunately as a counterpoint, one of the least developed museum systems. This directly plays into a general public disinterest in the arts and history, that is propagated by an educational system that considers them to be of little socio-economic relevance.
Motivated by a need to move beyond the state of the current museum system in India today, MAP intends to become a living institution for the visual arts, and forms part of a new wave of museums in India attempting to draw attention to the cultural value of the arts. At MAP’s core, is the idea of the museum as existing beyond the confines of its physical space, and it hopes to catalyse greater public participation and engagement in the arts, both by providing greater access to its collection, and by actively enabling debate, discussion and education through its exhibitions, research projects, talks, seminars and other outreach programmes.
MAP’s collection consists of a large and varied range of works predominantly from the Indian subcontinent, dating from the 12th century to the present. Keeping practical archiving concerns in mind, the collection has been divided into six key departments – Modern & Contemporary, Photography, Folk & Tribal, Popular Art and Textiles, Craft and Design and Pre-Modern Art. It is however our intention to present the fluid nature of these categories, and the ways in which they both contest and overlap one another through our curatorial programmes and projects.
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