Archives and Museums
The objective of the Archives and Museums (AMP) programme, launched in April 2019 is to energise institutions like museums and archives as platforms for dialogue and discourse. It will provide the institution, as well as scholars and practitioners, the opportunity to generate new, critical and creative approaches to engage the public, based on materials in selected archives and museums. The focus of the programme is on both institutions and individuals, encouraging them to become co-producers of knowledge and expertise, and prioritises processes as well as outcomes.
The programme implements two kinds of projects in association with the chosen institutions:
- Scholarly Projects aim at creating content and supporting the knowledge bank of the institution, culminating into tangible outcomes such as books and catalogues.
- Creative Projects aim at supporting the creative outcomes of interpreting the collections through exhibitions, films, workshops or other public engagements.
Budget for each kind of Project: A maximum of Rs 3 lakh which will cover both research and final outcomes over 15 months.
The Request for Proposals with various collaborators for the year 2024-25 will be announced from April 2024.
Archives and museums in India interested in collaborating with IFA on these projects can write to Ritwika Misra at ritwika@indiaifa.org for more details. To know about the collaborations in the past few years, click here.
IFA specifically encourages projects in Indian languages, including English, so as to contribute to the discourse in various language contexts.
The programme was made possible with part-support from Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi in 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 and with part-support from Parijat Foundation in 2022-2023.
In 2018, the erstwhile Archival and Museum Fellowships initiative underwent a review process which comprised a conference (please refer to the conference note here) and a day long review convened by a panel of experts from the field – Rustom Bharucha, Joyoti Roy, Naman Ahuja and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. With the help of their recommendations, the Archives and Museums programme (AMP) has been formulated.