Museum · Mumbai, Maharashtra
National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
The Mumbai branch of the national gallery, in the Sir Cowasji Jehangir Hall at the edge of Kala Ghoda. It works mostly through exhibitions, from the national collection and from elsewhere.
See first
- Whatever exhibition is on; the programme changes through the year
- The hall itself, near Regal Cinema in Colaba
- CSMVS and the Jehangir Art Gallery, a few minutes' walk away
NGMA Mumbai opened to the public in 1996, forty-two years after the Delhi gallery. It occupies the Sir Cowasji Jehangir Hall in Colaba, close to Regal Cinema, on the southern edge of the Kala Ghoda art district.
It belongs to the same national institution as Delhi and Bengaluru, run under the Ministry of Culture, and draws on the same collection of around 17,000 works. In practice it is an exhibition house: shows of individual painters and sculptors, and of art from other times and places, changing through the year.
That makes it a place to check before you go rather than one to plan a day around. Look at what is showing, then walk. Within a few hundred metres are CSMVS, with its miniatures and sculpture, and the Jehangir Art Gallery, where Mumbai’s artists have hung their work since 1952. An afternoon in this corner of the city covers a fair stretch of Indian art, old and new.