Why Museums Tell Stories Walk into any museum in the world and you are immediately surrounded by objects that predate you by time. They carry no instruction for how to be understood. It is only when a museum places them in context, assigns them meaning,…

Why Do Museums Matter? The impulse to preserve is amongst the oldest human behaviours. Before there were museums, communities passed down objects, stories, and practices because losing them felt like losing something of themselves. Museums are the formal version of that impulse, a deliberate decision…

Mango begins with a memory. The quiet excitement of cutting or simply biting into a ripe mango. The air is heavy with heat, the sweetness almost excessive. Something you wait for all year. Before the fruit was named, before it travelled across regions, the mango…

Tear It Apart: Reconnecting with the Joy of Being Present A recounting of Oviya Manivannan’s time exhibiting at the Museum of Goa I am Oviya, a 22-year-old artist, and I recently had the privilege of exhibiting my work at the ‘Homo Ludens: Art of Play’…

Introduction My first visit to the Museum of Goa was on a school trip, where all the artwork was explained in detail to us. The second time I visited, I had the opportunity to see each of the artwork through my own lens, and interpret…

In a world full of black and white, we often forget to appreciate the greys. The shades of monsoon make us feel like the sun abandoned the earth entirely. Hopelessness starts to creep in from places you didn't know were broken. That is when you…