Sarmaya Arts Foundation
Welcome to the museum without boundaries. Founded in 2015 by Paul Abraham, the Sarmaya Arts Foundation is a repository of art, artefacts and living traditions from the Indian subcontinent. Through talks, exhibitions, workshops and travel experiences, we make our collection accessible to all. Sarmaya is not a museum you go to; it’s a museum that comes to you.
'What will you do for the forest?' - with Chef Thomas Zacharias, Shailesh Awate & Gayatri Desai
'Tree of Life' - Eternal motifs in Indian art
Crucifixion of Christ - A Kalamkari Tapestry by Kailasam
Lado Bai, Bhil & India's legendary community arts
Akbar’s silver coin—the first ever Indian ‘rupee’?
'1001 and Counting' - Sudarshan Shaw's encounters with India's tigers
Provocative Bombay Progressive Artist FN Souza
Indian Modernist Master Badri Narayan
Q&A with Ira Mukhoty at Sarmaya Talks
'The Lion & The Lily - Rise and Fall of Awadh' by Ira Mukhoty
Q&A with Manu S Pillai at Sarmaya Talks
'Gods, Guns & Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity' by Manu S Pillai
Art Matters with Dr Rukmini Banerji & Uma Ranade, Pratham Education Foundation
Art Matters with filmmaker and educator Nina Sabnani
Art Matters with Hena Kapadia, TARQ
Jethro Buck’s Wild Worlds - A film by Sarmaya
Our archive moves to Mumbai's heritage district
Madhur Gupta | Sarmaya Talks | Morality, Diplomacy, and Power Dynamics: Courtesans of India
Vidya Shah | Sarmaya Talks | Music Makers in the Gramophone Era: The Women on Record Project
Vijay Balakrishnan | Sarmaya Talks | The Unknown Story of the First INA's Espionage Wing
Arup Kumar Dutta | Sarmaya Talks | The Ahom Dynasty: Genesis, Continuity and Legacy.
Dr. Radhika Singha | Sarmaya Talks | Bombay to Basra: On the Highways of World War One 1914-21
Ravindra Rathee | Sarmaya Talks | True to Their Salt
Dr. Rakhshanda Jalil | Sarmaya Talks | Literary Responses in Prose and Poetry to the First World War
Tanvi Srivastava | Sarmaya Talks | From Tokyo to Netaji's Rani of Jhansi Regiment
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Sarmaya Talks with André Baptista | Folk of the Salt-Spray
Sarmaya Talks with Fiona Fernandez | All Access Heritage: Why Mumbai needs an open-door policy
Sarmaya Talks with Nadeem Rezavi | Ornamenting the Walls of an Imperial Capital: Fathpur Sikri
Sarmaya Talks with Vikramajit Ram | Mansur: A novel in twenty-four miniatures