The Alipore Museum

In আই আর ছত্তিরিশ (IR36), Arpan Mukherjee brings forth a journey etched in fragile glass—a portrait of a world left behind yet lingering in memory. Through the archaic medium of ambrotype...

Bappaditya Biswas’ ‘Liberation’ unfolds within the evocative setting of the prisoners’ weaving room at the Alipore Museum. Once a site of mandatory labour imposed under colonial rule, this space.....

Over a hundred-year period, the worship of Kali has undergone dramatic change in the Indian subcontinent. From being vilified as the goddess of the ‘thugees’ under the British to becoming the subject of Ramakrishna’s ardent worship and popular teachings, her reputation has oscillated...

In ‘Jaile Baire’, the Alipore Central Jail, now a museum, transforms into a palimpsest of fragmented memories and resonant absences. A part of her series ‘Sadak’, these photographs transform the Indian street into a stage for stories of everyday life and memory, dissolving the hierarchies between ‘high’ and ‘low’ arts. In Jaile Baire, the selected images take on new resonance...

In Cell No. 5 of The Alipore Museum, Sheela Gowda’s exhibition unfolds as a quiet, layered critique that draws its power from the charged history of the space itself. Once a colonial prison, now a museum, the jail holds the memory of those who fought for an inclusive and independent India...