NATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDIAN CINEMA (NMIC)

About:

• Objective: The state-of-the-art Museum, aims to take its visitors through a journey of over a century of Indian cinema in a story telling mode with the help of visuals, graphics, artifacts, interactive exhibits and multimedia expositions.
  
  
• Bodies/People involved: The museum has been
  • built by: NBCC (India) Limited – a state-owned Navratna public sector undertaking,
    
    
  • designed by: the National Council of Science Museums and
    
    
  • implemented by: the films division under the ministry of information and technology.
    
    
  
  
  
• The creation of the Museum has been guided by the Museum Advisory Committee headed by Shyam Benegal. An innovation Committee headed by Prasoon Joshi was also constituted to provide an upgrade to NMIC.
  
  
• Location: The Museum is housed in the following two buildings in the Films Division campus in Mumbai.
  • The New Museum Building: It has following four Exhibition Halls (1) Gandhi & Cinema, (2) Children’s Film Studio, (3) Technology, creativity & Indian cinema and (4) Cinema across India.
    
    
  • Gulshan Mahal: The 19^th century historic palace Gulshan Mahal is an ASI Grade-II Heritage Structure which has been restored as part of the NMIC project. It showcase the journey of over a hundred years of Indian cinema in 9 sections.