Overview
- The exhibition at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum is now open, featuring multimedia displays, archival photographs, oral histories, and rare Deco artefacts and furniture.
- The schedule includes Churchgate Street Rewind from Nov. 7–16, guided Art Deco walks on Nov. 8, 9, 15 and 16, an Eros cinema tour, film screenings, workshops and a speaker series.
- Organised by Art Deco Alive!, Art Deco Mumbai Trust and the Bhau Daji Lad Museum, the show is curated by Atul Kumar and follows an October debut in Miami under the ‘Ocean Drive to Marine Drive’ theme.
- Maharashtra Cultural Affairs Minister Ashish Shelar inaugurated the Mumbai leg, as civic leaders called for greater public engagement with the city’s built heritage.
- Mumbai hosts one of the world’s largest Art Deco clusters, yet many buildings outside the famous South Bombay corridors lack formal protection and have been deteriorating.