Client: Sanskriti Museums (Sanskriti Foundation), New Delhi, India
June 2010 – December 2010
The Sanskriti Museums are a part of the Sanskriti Foundation, a non-profit organisation involved in the arts and cultural field since the 1980s. The Museums have largely developed out of the founder president Mr. O. P. Jain’s passion for preservation of traditional Indian art and craft. The Museums are actually three museums – of Indian Textile, Everday Art, and Terracotta – and are located at the Foundation’s verdant campus called Anandagram on the Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road.
The terracotta collections include work from across the country, and those created on-site by master-craftsmen, thus showcasing the incredible variety of form and purpose capable of the humble medium of clay. The Everyday Art collections celebrate the ingenuity and creativity of the Indian craftsman in transforming functional objects of daily use into objets d’art through sensitive design. They range from hukkahs, scales, and measures, to women’s toiletries, amulets and ritual accessories. The textile collection holds key representative samples of the rich and varied textile heritage of India.
Our role
In a first initiative of the kind for the museum, Eka developed extensive content for touchscreen kiosks at each of Sanskriti’s three museums. These kiosks will help visitors explore the contents on display as well as the reserve collection at the museum, in addition to learning about the process and production of everyday art and objects in India.