A MUSEUM ON WHEELS
The Design Museum Dharavi is an innovative cultural space that will be nomadic, travelling along Dharavi.
WHY A MUSEUM IN DHARAVI?
The Design Museum Dharavi will be the first ever design museum created inside an informal settlement.
SO MUCH MORE
Wholesale retailers, repair shops, restaurants and tea stalls, butchers, fish markets, hairdressers, fortune tellers, and so much more.
HOW TO GET THINGS DONE
How to create a museum in Dharavi?
Step 1: Go to Daharavi
Step 2: Make a museum
MEET DHARAVI’S MAIN MAN
In Dharavi you need to know the right people, the movers and shakers, the 'to-go-to-guys'. And luckily we got introduced to Shyanew...
CHAI CUPS & WATER CONTAINERS
Kumbharwada in Dharavi is an establishment of potters. It is around a hundred years old and forms the largest community of potters in Mumbai...
DESIGN MUSEUM DHARAVI OPENING
Did you miss our Museum’s opening? Don’t worry about it, here you can take a look at everything that happened during Design Museum Dharavi’s first exhibition.
CRICKET TOURNAMENT
Cricket is big in India, and Dharavi is no exception. Every corner and every alley features improvised stumps, a bowler carefully thinking about his next move and a lucky batsman ready to show off...
NEW AESTHETICS
The looks of these pieces are completely different from the more intricate traditional Indian styles, yet they represented the colourful identity inherent from Dharavi...
CONFERENCE
The conference ‘exploring design as a global agent for social development’ was an open discussion on design, creativity, and its future social impact on the expanding megacities of tomorrow...
AMSTERDAM EXHIBITION
Visit us until 6 October 2016 on the first floor at Spring House Amsterdam...
LEADING CULTURAL DESTINATIONS AWARD
We won! Design Museum Dharavi has been selected as ‘Best New Museum of the Year - Asia Pacific’ by the Leading Cultural Destinations Award.
THE WATERPROOF PROJECT
Design Museum Dharavi’s fourth exhibition revolves around the monsoon time and the iconic blue tarpaulin material that covers and protects most of Dharavi from the heavy rains.
BEAZLEY DESIGNS OF THE YEAR
We are proud to announce that Design Museum Dharavi has been nominated in the category of Product and that we are part of the Beazley Designs of the Year exhibition in London!
