In a rapidly changing world and with the experience of the pandemic not behind us, we all yearn for a better time, for a ‘normalcy’ that seems to have vanished from the world. This longing for a time before the pandemic, even for a world that was not as uncertain as it seems, can be seen as a kind of nostalgia. Nostalgia leads to the creation of stories that make earlier times more spectacular than the present, whether involving personal memory, family stories, or myths that nations create about themselves. In the case of nations, national myths are kept in museums dedicated to newly formed countries, especially in the post-colonial world. Pointing out that in his article, The Museum is National, art historian Kavita Singh reads The Making of a Tale of National Greatness at the National Museum in New Delhi in such a way that the sculptural traditions of the subcontinent were read as distinct from European art. .
Museums have traditionally been viewed as institutions that preserve, preserve and glorify the ancient …
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