The museum on wheels will be open for public from February.
With an aim to develop a platform for the small scale businesses of Dharavi locals, an art museum on wheels will soon be launched in Dharavi. The musuem will be the world’s first slum museum travelling across areas to showcase the talent of Dharavi locals.
Talking about the museum, Amanda Pinatih, co-founder and art curator from Netherland, said, “We want people from different areas to come and visit the museum. Through the art exhibition, they will be able to see the creative products made by the locals. This will help people interact with the locals. Also, the locals will be able to develop potential contacts to sell their products at a larger scale and increase the income for their livelihood.”
The museum will open from February with products made from textile, pottery, and recycled items at display along with various workshops.
Explaining the concept, Amanda said, “We preferred to start a mobile museum so that it could reach people in different localities rather than just in one place. Since the museum is on wheels, we don’t have to search for a permanent place.”
The mobile museum is an initiative by Jorge Mañes Rubio (Seethisway), Amanda Pinatih (MADE Pinatih), Rahul Srivastava (URBZ) and Matias Echanove (URBZ). The concept was developed by Rubio, Spanish artist, after he visited Dharavi in 2011. “I visited Dharavi for three weeks. I met few people and looking at their struggle and difficulties, thought of doing something for them. After going back, the idea of the project to display the creativity of the locals struck me. It took us sometime for the research work, to discuss the idea with like-minded people, mapping the whole project and then coming up with a mobile museum,” said Rubio.
After setting up the museum for the first two months, the founder will be letting the locals of Dharavi take care of the museum. “Over seven art exhibitions will be organised in the first two months. We will be setting up the project in February and March. Later, we will be collaborating with locals who can take charge of the museum further and operate it in Dharavi,” Rubio added.
To get further update about Design Museum Dharavi, log on to designmuseumdharavi.org.
This article was first published on iamin.in. For more such hyperlocal stories, visit their website.
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