When Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport opened a new terminal last month, it did more than enlarge one of the world’s busiest airports. It also created India’s largest museum, Jaye He (Glory to India), with 7,430sqm of art visible on all four levels of the airport. With an estimated 40 million passengers travelling through the airport annually, the museum will surpass the number of visitors (about nine million) to the Louvre in Paris. The terminal displays around 7,000 works from craftsmen, cities, villages, collectors and museums across India, as well as 100 commissioned contemporary works, some by Indian artists as renowned as Mithu Sen, Riyas Khomu and Nek Chand. bbc/travel/feature/20140225-indias-largest-museum-takes-flight?OCID=fbbbcindia
Posted on: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 15:30:02 +0000
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