https://openthemagazine.com/art-culture/the-sanskriti-museum-of-indian-textiles-and-everyday-art-reopens-in-delhi-preserving-memories-of-the-past-and-traditional-design-heritage
Media Source: Condé Nast Traveller (India)
Date: 4 August 2026
In the decades after India’s independence, paper manufacturer OP Jain traversed the length and breadth of the country to explore and build a collection of Indian craft. Now well into his 90s, his collection, spanning over 2,500 objects, has found a new home at Delhi’s Humayun’s Tomb World Heritage Site Museum. A new gallery, called the Sanskriti Museum of Indian Textiles & Everyday Art, opened to the public on 1 August, housing artefacts and textiles dating back to the early 19th century. In Jain’s words, building the collection was his attempt to, “care for, study and share India’s cultural heritage instead of merely admiring it.” The founder of the original Sanskriti Kendra, a cultural complex in Mehrauli (south Delhi), passed on the upkeep and care of the collection to the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts , and it is now housed in the Humayun’s Tomb Complex under the care of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC). Ratish Nanda, CEO of AKTC explains that the museum follows a thematic display, mirroring a life cycle from birth to death.
