Bangkok’s lovely Museum Siam, which we visited a couple of years ago, has a very interesting temporary exhibition on at the moment. “Thai Dialogue: Foreign Quote” is a free exhibition, exploring Siam’s history, culture, and identity through the eyes, journals, and artefacts of foreign visitors—including merchants, diplomats, missionaries, and scholars—across different …
Just when you think you know your city, along comes a museum that you have never heard of, let alone visited…that was us today, visiting the Indian Air Force Museum in Palam, out near the airport. I only recently heard about the museum on social media, but we couldn’t join …
My recent trip to Doha, after a long time (34 years to be precise!) was full of revelations. Amazing architecture, extraordinary museums, and none more so than the absolutely stunning National Museum of Qatar. The building is absolutely gorgeous. Truly stunning. It is designed to represent a desert rose, a …
What an interesting, informative & beautifully presented exhibition this is. The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art has collaborated with the National Museum of Australia to bring to Delhi a collection of nearly 300 paintings, objects and multimedia works from Australia’s First Nation. The exhibition narrates the saga of the Seven …
Having lived in Bombay’s* Cuffe Parade at the same time as the late M.F.Husain, I felt a certain neighbourhood “kinship” with the eminent artist who went into self-exile from India and spent the last years of his life as a Qatari citizen. So, the immersive exhibition in Doha’s Qatar Museums …
The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Delhi’s Saket is always well worth a visit – the current retrospective exhibion of the work of Gulammohammed Sheikh is beautifully curated and presented. But there is another reason to head there in the coming week. And it is this one painting. Mary …
New Delhi already has some jaw-dropping monuments – think the Red Fort, Purana Qila, Humayun’s Tomb, Safdarjung’s Tomb – to name but a few, and now we are blessed with the country’s first sunken museum. The “first in the country” moniker is actually not that important (though it’s a fun …
What a fascinating, fun and hugely informative museum this is…everything a museum should be, actually, but so often isn’t. Located in a gorgeous historic building, Museum Siam is a discovery museum on the essence of Thai-ness and what exactly it means to be Thai. To non-Thais like us, the “Deciding …
This museum is a fascinating little gem, down a side canal off Bangkok’s Chao Phraya river, and on the day we visited we were the only people there, which was very special. It was also high tide on the river, meaning we had to splash our way through the water …
