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The Peabody Essex Museum, along with MIT-India and the MIT South Asian Alumni Association, invite you to a virtual tour of PEM's South Asian Art Galleries. Hear from Siddhartha V. Shah, Director of Education and Civic Engagement and Curator of South Asian Art, as he introduces these exciting spaces and takes us behind the scenes. This tour will feature the Chester and Davida Herwitz Gallery, which is the first American museum gallery dedicated to modern and contemporary Indian art.

The new Prashant H. Fadia Foundation and Deshpande Foundation Gallery features a selection of objects from PEM's extensive collection of historical material from India. Focused primarily on the 19th century, the gallery considers India's long and complex history of foreign occupation and its troubling impact on the representation of Indian people in art.

Bridging myth with social and political history, the new Chester and Davida Herwitz Gallery tells the story of nation-building and self-discovery through works of India's most celebrated artistic geniuses of the 20th century. The gallery centers on a series of paintings inspired by the Mahabharata, painted by M.F. Husain in 1971.