Drishyakala Art Museum


DAG in collaboration with ASI set up Drishyakala Art Museum (Fig: 1.1) at the historic Red Fort’s Barrack No. 4 that was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.


Fig: 1.1 Drishyakala Art Museum

It is a three-floor exhibition space that houses 400 artworks spread over 25,000 square ft. by India’s leading artists from the DAG collection.

On the ground floor is Navratna: India’s National Treasure Artists that showcases the works of India’s nine National Treasure Artists- Raja Ravi Varma, Amrita Sher-Gil, Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Sailoz Mookherjea, Jamini Roy and Nicholas Roerich. (Fig: 1.2)


Fig: 1.2 Navratna Gallery

 On the first floor, Popular Prints & the Freedom Struggle, curated by Paula Sengupta, showcases how printmaking, or the art of the printed picture, became a tool to illustrate a new brand of nationalist literature and propaganda for India’s freedom movement.


On the same floor there is another gallery, A Portrait of Our People, curated by Pramod Kumar KG, that captures a changing India through its people. In this exhibition, in pen and ink, paint and canvas, print and paper and all manner art, we seek to understand a portrait of our people and the remarkable times they lived through. (Fig: 1.3)

Fig: 1.3 Portrait Gallery

On the second floor, Oriental Scenery: Aquatints of India by Thomas Daniell and William Daniell, curated by art historian Giles Tillotson, brings alive the Indian architecture and landscape that is depicted through their travels across India. (Fig: 1.4)

Fig: 1.4 Oriental Scenery Gallery
For maximum outreach, DAG has also created small tactile galleries 'The Inner Eye: Art for the Visually Impaired''on each of the three floors (Fig: 1.5). The gallery has tactile artworks accompanied by artwork text both in Hindi and English in Braille.

Fig: 1.5 The Tactile Gallery

In addition, there is a space for children‘Every Child is an Artist’: The Learning Hub where they conduct programmes like workshops, poetry sessions and many creative programmes for school children of all ages and college students. This, according to me, is the best part of the exhibition wherein young minds can showcase their creativity and have fun in museum.

Open till 31st December 2019 (Monday Closed)
Timings: 9 AM – 5 PM
Entrance: Lahori Gate, Red Fort, Delhi

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