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As South India’s first major private art museum, the Museum of Art & Photography in Bengaluru aims to take art and culture to the heart of the community, making it accessible to diverse audiences! We curate non-stop art experiences for audiences of all ages, from art exhibitions, events and workshops to a range of articles and essays, collaborations with museums around the world, engaging talks by leading industry figures, and educational resources for kids and adults. Set to be the most inclusive museum in the country, MAP takes a 360-degree approach to accessibility with a special focus on people with disabilities. The museum includes art galleries, an auditorium, an art and research library, an education centre, a specialised research and conservation facility, a cafe, member’s lounge and fine-dining restaurant. Visit our website: https://map-india.org/
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You might just meet your heroes this weekend ✏️Join us for a weekend of comics with Rachita Taneja, Falah Faisal and Hal...
13/10/2026

You might just meet your heroes this weekend ✏️

Join us for a weekend of comics with Rachita Taneja, Falah Faisal and Hallubol, a book launch for Imposter: The Playful Subversions of Orijit Sen, and a conversation on identity, culture and belonging in comics with Hallubol and Arpita Gaidhane.

🔗 Head to the link in bio for details and registrations.

📜 October at MAP is supported by HSBC.

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08/10/2026

Indrajit Khambe has spent his life deeply connected to the region’s landscape and communities, which continue to be the greatest source of inspiration for his work.

As a child, he explored painting before developing a fascination with agriculture, captivated by the transformation of a tiny seed into something abundant and life-giving. That same sense of growth resurfaced when he bought his first camera in 2012. Photography became a seed he planted within himself—one that he has continued to nurture over the years.

Khambe’s photographs explore the traditions, communities and lived culture that surround wrestling, Reflecting on the works featured in ‘Grip, Hold, Pin’ he says: “For me, wrestling has never been just about competition. It is a way of life shaped by
discipline, community and generations of shared tradition. Through the edition of photographs which are a part of Grip, Hold, Pin I hope to preserve not only the physicality of the wrestlers, but also the cultural world that continues to sustain them.”

His works, alongside many others, are on view at ‘Grip, Hold, Pin’ until 1 November, 2026.

🔗Plan your visit through the link in our bio!

This week at MAP, we’re exploring the many sides of storytelling and sport. Join a guided walk through depictions of wom...
07/10/2026

This week at MAP, we’re exploring the many sides of storytelling and sport. Join a guided walk through depictions of women wrestling in Raagmala paintings, a workshop on writing about photography, and the second edition of ‘Shared Futures’ with visual artist Rai and curator Priya Chauhan.

We’re also screening ‘Goonga Pehelwan’, tracing deaf wrestler Virender Singh’s journey to the 2016 Rio Olympics, followed by a conversation with filmmaker Vivek Chaudhary and Virender Singh himself. Many reasons to drop by this weekend!

🔗 Head to the link in bio to register.

📜October at MAP is supported by HSBC.

How does one voice reach millions of people? This Gandhi Jayanti, we look at the sound systems that made it possible for...
02/10/2026

How does one voice reach millions of people? This Gandhi Jayanti, we look at the sound systems that made it possible for Mahatma Gandhi and many others to be heard.

A Congress leader stands behind a microphone. A khadi-clad audience faces the stage. The reverb of impassioned sloganeering at a rally. While we cannot hear these images, they allow us to listen to the currents of India’s freedom struggle.

As a tool anti-colonial messaging and for people to participate and witness, sound and other sensory experiences played a significant role in the independence movement. The photographs displayed in this exhibition, from the Mahatma Gandhi Collection and of the Indian freedom movement, trace the presence and movement of sound.

🔗For more of the story, visit ‘Soundscapes of Struggle against the Empire’, a Gallery-On-Demand exhibition curated by Manisha Tamilmani and Tanya Maheshwari, at the Sasken Multimedia Gallery, MAP.

Art Is Life is back for a 4th edition! 📣It’s that time of the year again, when MAP throws open its doors for a weekend o...
30/09/2026

Art Is Life is back for a 4th edition! 📣

It’s that time of the year again, when MAP throws open its doors for a weekend of art, wonder and discovery. Dedicated to the celebration of art, culture and discourse, ‘Art Is Life’ is an annual highlight on MAP’s cultural calendar, a weekend where the museum opens itself to artists, storytellers, practitioners and visitors of every kind.

We believe a museum is at its best when it is shared. The festival is our invitation to engage more deeply with the stories that shape us, to see MAP’s collection through fresh perspectives, and to find new ways into art.

This year, the journey continues with a new theme, a new exhibition and fresh frames to experience art in countless ways. Can you guess our new theme?

🔗Mark your calendars for December 5-6 and stay tuned for more details!

Are these photographs just a memory of the past, or do they hold a mirror to the present?Photographs like this, and othe...
30/09/2026

Are these photographs just a memory of the past, or do they hold a mirror to the present?

Photographs like this, and other archival documents, push us to look beyond the iconic imagery of the independence movement, and to think about gatherings in their own historical context.

In this two-day workshop, ‘Acts of Gathering’, visual artist Uzma Mohsin takes participants through photographs, documents and other material from the Gandhi Collection, engaging with her own work on archives and public histories to think through the idea of political gatherings.

🔗 Head to the link in bio for details and to register!

How do non-living structures support living things?Architect Bhavana Kumar (Bhavana Kumar ) designed the scaffolding gri...
29/09/2026

How do non-living structures support living things?

Architect Bhavana Kumar (Bhavana Kumar ) designed the scaffolding grid that gives ‘Living Botanicals’ its skeleton, but as she describes it, it’s far more than that. Conceptually, the idea was always to hold that tension between a clean, calibrated space and a botanical system that has its own agenda entirely.

The structure begins as a primary framework and gradually becomes containers, carriers, and receptacles for nature. Over time it has been many things: an observatory, registering fluctuations in humidity, scent, sound, and temperature. A laboratory, a place to tend, to cultivate, to learn care. A sanctuary, under filtered light, allowing time to be felt.

Alongside the modular yellow structure, a long civic table invites gathering, sketching, cultivating, or simply observing. Cups, containers, canisters, sieves, and pulleys populate the grid, proposing new ways to encounter botanical elements.

‘Living Botanicals’ closes on November 22, 2026. Plan a visit to witness how it’s grown, changed and decayed. 🌿

23/09/2026

Our team has something to tell you 🤟

We’re back for the 4th year of IWDP at MAP and this one’s going to be special. Workshops, performances, panels and more, all led by Deaf artists, facilitators and performers.

🔗Join us from 25–27 September, and head to the link in bio to register!

📜Supported by Adobe Foundation
Accessibility partners: Mphasis F1 Foundation
Community partners: The Association of People with Disability

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International Week of Deaf People is back at MAP 🤟This year, we’re bringing together a programme that celebrates Deaf cu...
19/09/2026

International Week of Deaf People is back at MAP 🤟

This year, we’re bringing together a programme that celebrates Deaf culture, Indian Sign Language, and the many ways we communicate, create and share stories. Led by Deaf artists, facilitators and cultural practitioners, the events across September 25-27 invite Deaf and hearing audiences to meet, learn and make together.

At its heart, this programme is about building a museum that feels more open, welcoming and accessible to everyone!

🔗Head to the link in bio for further details and to register.

📜Supported by Adobe Foundation
Accessibility partners: Mphasis F1 Foundation
Community partners: Association for People with Disabilities.

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Tuesday 10am - 6:30pm
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Thursday 10am - 6:30pm
Friday 10am - 7:30pm
Saturday 10am - 7:30pm
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