Overview
- The museum will be the first dedicated to M. F. Husain, presenting a newly assembled permanent collection across paintings, film, tapestry, photography, poetry, installations, and personal objects.
- Its architecture realizes a 2008 sketch by Husain, translated into a functioning building by Delhi-based architect Martand Khosla.
- A dedicated gallery will stage Seeroo fi al ardh (2009), the late multimedia work that narrates humanity’s technological and cultural progress.
- Highlights include about 35 paintings on Arab civilisation commissioned by Sheikha Moza bint Nasser during Husain’s final years in Qatar.
- The opening comes as interest in Husain’s legacy rises, underscored by a March Christie’s sale of a 1954 painting for $13.8 million, a record for Indian modern art.