Why Bangalore museum is bending in art and photography tech and touch

It is a fact that it was universally accepted that a new-age museum would have to be made the right selfie spot in our smartphone era. In the last decade, founders, architects, exhibition designers, curator and artists have also had to imagine their actions and spaces as Instagram Backdrops. Abhishek Pudar, the founder of this museum, says, in the Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) of Bangalore, it is not in the origin of his “museum-swing culture”. “In MAP, these interactive elements, whether analog or digital, are always intentional options, not add-on.”

Adjusting this Gulzar social media scenario is not kowtowing; Museums also need foot. This is a map of communication and construction community to engage with these unknown, captive channels that mark them. “This is nothing that we prioritial from the beginning of the concept of an exhibition, but also something we have come to consider in the process of executing it. The way it works in the world, and museums and their shows cannot be completely safe,” the map explains the exhibitions and the director of the cursor. “But this is good when this happens.”

Arnika Ahladag | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

She points to the example Writing table Recently from the installation title in the open exhibition Size of an idea: Letter from Ram KumarIt is stacked with short-fiction collection and other writing by the wooden desk and chair, a loose hife of blank paper, pen and pencils. Visitors can take inspiration from the prejudices of the artist and write a letter to themselves, loved ones, strangers or even the city. Once done once, they can clip it with twilight above the desk like festive divisions.

Writing table Establishment | Photo Credit: PSAC Studio

A visitor writes a letter. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

“Initial views were to find a way to connect with the physical work of letter-writing for visitors. The way someone causes a different way to structure someone’s ideas than sending a text message from raising a pen and writing on paper,” Ahladg says, carry us through the thinking process behind the construction of an exhibition. “But this is the element Size It has shared the most on social media; And this is good with us because it has become another way to experience Ram Kumar’s practice, connect and feel for people. ,

The letters of the modernist writer-pantter can be experienced through many formats-through a walk in the Indian sign language, translation, tape, bless and regional languages. Pudar says, these different layers that invite conversations give a large group of people an opportunity to know their actions and ideas; This allows them to answer through the medium they are the most comfortable “” If they prefer big screens, we have digitally stored exhibitions, if they like games, we have sports. The idea is that they start on a trip to hug them and appreciate them. “

Size of an idea: Letter from Ram Kumar
Photo Credit: PSAC Studio

Disintegrate

Since opening in 2023, the MAP and its teams have understood that the audience has more expected from the artwork frame hanging on a wall and will be declared as great art. Instead, our passion with MAP smartphones has been able to channel, while also responsible for closing our desires and touching our environment. “The experience of some has become more and more important,” shares Ahaladag. For example, abstract art is usually considered something that is scared. “This is the reputation of being only for those people or for experienced connoisseurs.”

To address this notion, her exhibitions have been put together for “a relationship between artist and audience”, she explains. In the Ram Kumar exhibition, there are indications in the form of questions on the brown text panels next to each abstract paintings that can cover various entry-points in the scene for the audience. This is their expansion Family label Activity that allows visitors to see artifacts and create a label as to what they think the artwork means, or what they saw and felt.

Performs touch on Size of an idea: Letter from Ram Kumar Exhibition | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Ahldag has found that when such invitation intervention is “made in relation to an exhibition, people are more interested”. While map exhibitions include tactile art work is an exercise feature, an integral principle of map’s outreach that achieves arts to reach the abilities, “they have also become a way for the general public to experience art with different senses”. And although digital experiences in the museum are state -of -the -art, Ahldag and his team of exhibitions have found that “the old ideas such as a reading station or an activity desk have worked well”.

“In the early weekend, Writing table Visitors have become a hit and we have already collected handwritten letters of gratitude, dedication and loves the size of a thick book, “she tells me. [at the museum]It is sweet that we have become a third place in the city to try a different speed for visitors, slow down slightly, spend time on an activity that is not immediately converted into a product – these are the intensals that we want to be able to share with our visitors, “she makes the conclusion.

Writing table Establishment | Photo Credit: PSAC Studio

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Published – August 21, 2025 05:17 pm IST