Artnet

Partition Museum Opens Near India-Pakistan Border, Ending Decades of Silence

Seventy years after one of the most deadly and disruptive political cataclysms of modern times, the Partition Museum has opened in the Indian city of Amritsar. It is the first cultural institution ...
The New Indian Express

Partition Museum Book Club: Memories from a broken home

“The Partition is still present,” says Oral historian Aanchal Malhotra. “Its wounds are not shallow. They run deep.” The author is, however, against “condensing” the event to just violence. How does ...
Hindustan Times

70 years of Independence: With the Partition Museum, we will commemorate a painful past

Perhaps there are no coincidences in life, because this year, when the world’s first Partition Museum will be completed in Amritsar, the theme for the International Museums Day was “museums and ...
Hindustan Times

The Partition Museum in Amritsar will be a museum of love, loss and hope

The paper is old and the writing has faded into an indistinguishable grey. Yet, the firmness in the hand of the writer is visible after 70 years. HT Image (AP file photo) Around him, as he wrote in ...
India TV

India’s first Partition Museum opens after 70 years of bloodstained tragedy

It has been 70 years since India and Pakistan were created from former British colony. There has never been an avenue to explore the stories and memorabilia of those who lived through the horror of ...
lse

The Partition Museum

The Partition Museum is the first of its kind, dedicated to the memory of the Partition of India in 1947 — its victims, its survivors and its lasting legacy. The Government of Punjab, India, has ...
The Tribune

Partition Museum visitors and their contribution

Famous Bollywood lyricist and CFBC chairman Prasoon Joshi had called the Partition Museum a beating heart, full of memories and stories which connect generations across India and Pakistan. With the ...
The Telegraph

I want to change the perception of Kolkata through architecture and dialogue: Aurgho Jyoti

The chief architect of the virtual Kolkata Partition Museum on his work in India and the US, colonial narratives and more A space from the virtual Kolkata Partition Museum, and chief architect of the ...
Los Angeles Times

Finally, a museum will document the horrors of partition that many Indians and Pakistanis want to forget

Reporting from Amritsar, India — Amolak Swani’s knobby fingers gripped a cane as she shuffled into the room, her daughter holding her at the elbow. She settled into a chair with a sigh and began ...
The Hindu

The Partition Museum at the Dara Shikoh Library Building focusses on how migrants changed Delhi’s profile

The transformation of Delhi by the Partition is at the heart of this narrative — reads a signboard at the entrance of the museum inside the quaint Dara Shikoh Library of BR Ambedkar University. This ...
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The Partition Museum

The Partition Museum is the first of its kind, dedicated to the memory of the Partition of India in 1947 — its victims, its survivors and its lasting legacy. The Government of Punjab, India, has ...