In France, an agreement signed in December 2024 with the France Muséums Agency to lay the foundations for a new National Museum in Delhi, the Yuga Ygeen Bharat, which translates as “the Eternal and Eternal India Museum,” passed without being served. In India, however, this project to build the “largest museum in the world”, with the aim of telling the history of the country, is already controversial.
There is already a national museum in the Indian capital. However, he is small because of the great ambitions of the nationalist prime minister, Narendra Modi, who is concerned about his legacy. The future institution will stay at 140,000 m.2 of administrative buildings dating from 1927, currently occupied by the Interior Mines, Defense and Foreign Affairs.
A teaser video presented in May 2023 Duration The Expo of the International Museum announced the creation of 950 rooms aimed at the Indian promotion of promotion, historical heritage, medieval India, the struggle for independent freedom and India.
A thick veil of mystery surrounds the project. “No budget or plan has been made public, nor how objects will be transported and stored,” the Indian online communication The Wire said. The writing of the national narrative is partially worrying for the public, despite the promises of inclusion retermined in December. “If someone has crushed diversity in the last 1,000 years, it is the current government,” said former Indian Culture Minister Jawhar Sircar, interviewed by The art newspaper.
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