Sanskriti Museums, Art museum complex in Mehrauli, India.
Sanskriti Museums is an art museum complex in Mehrauli, Delhi, made up of three separate galleries housed in low buildings set within a garden. Each gallery focuses on a different category of Indian craft: terracotta objects, traditional textiles, and objects of everyday use.
The complex opened in 1990, built around a private collection that had been growing since 1984. From the start, the goal was to document traditional Indian craft techniques before they disappeared from active use.
The three collections bring together everyday objects from across India, from fired clay figures to hand-stitched textiles made for daily use. Walking through the galleries, visitors get a sense of how these crafts were woven into ordinary life rather than reserved for special occasions.
Entry is free, and the site is open Tuesday through Sunday. Since the three galleries are spread across a garden, it helps to leave enough time to visit each one without rushing.
The site has an on-site restoration laboratory that specializes in ancient textiles, which is rare for a museum of this size. The work done there focuses on stabilizing fragile fabrics without changing how they look.
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