TALK "The Dynamics of Cultural Conservation : Institution-Building Practices at BDL Museum and INTACH" by Tasneem Mehta at Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm on 17th September 2016

Lila Prism Lecture with Tasneem Zakaria Mehta and Jyotindra Jain

Time : 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 17/09/2016 19:00 17/09/2016 20:30 Asia/Kolkata TALK "The Dynamics of Cultural Conservation : Institution-Building Practices at BDL Museum and INTACH" by Tasneem Mehta Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/09/talk-dynamics-of-cultural-conservation.html Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : TALK "The Dynamics of Cultural Conservation : Institution-Building Practices at BDL Museum and INTACH" by Tasneem Mehta
A LILA Prism Lecture

Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum is a Museum about Museums. It has survived almost exactly as it was when first established in the middle of the 19th century as the Victoria and Albert Museum. It tells us how museums were first conceived and presented, and about the early objectives and aspirations. The restoration that INTACH completed in partnership with the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation and the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai has made every effort to retain the original character while at the same time introducing the latest technology to enhance the quality and performance of the institution.  Tasneem Mehta presents the intertwined stories of the BDL Museum and INTACH, having known both their lives inside out. And she points to the need and methodology to build strong institutions in the culture sector.

Speaker : Tasneem Zakaria Mehta is an art historian, writer, curator, designer and museum expert, and has successfully pioneered the revival and restoration of several of Mumbai's important cultural sites.
In 2010, she was elected Vice Chairman of INTACH, the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage and has been the Convenor of the Mumbai Chapter and member of the Governing Council since 1996. Since 2003, she has been the Managing Trustee and Honorary Director of the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai City Museum, (the erstwhile Victoria and Albert Museum) which won the prestigious UNESCO 2005 Asia Pacific 'Award of Excellence' for Cultural Conservation. She has been a Non-Executive and Independent Director at Wockhardt Ltd. since September 30, 2014. She studied Fine Arts and Design at the Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai. She holds an undergraduate degree in Political Philosophy from Columbia University, New York, a master’s degree in English from the University of Delhi, and a postgraduate diploma in Art History from London.

Chair : Jyotindra Jain is the former Director of the National Crafts Museum, Professor and Dean at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Member Secretary of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. He was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and a Rudolf-Arnheim Visiting Professor at Humboldt University in Berlin. Besides being an eminent scholar and curator, Prof. Jain, both as builder of several cultural institutions in India as well as an insightful critic of cultural policy and institutional histories of the country, has developed alternative perspectives on the subject. Presently Trustee-Director of Sanskriti Foundation and Founder Trustee and Director of CIVIC: Centre for Indian Visual Culture was Director of Crafts Museum, New Delhi.

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