Through its various activities, the CSMVS, like many other institutions, is also playing a proactive role in creating exemplars for development of museums in India. One of its units that is being acknowledged nationwide as an upcoming premier facility is the CSMVS Museum Art Conservation Centre. The Board of Trustees, CSMVS and its Director Mr. Sabyasachi Mukherjee have expressed that the CSMVS Museum Art Conservation Centre should play a larger role in improving standards of art conservation in the country in line with it mission statement.
The CSMVS Museum Art Conservation Centre (MACC), Mumbai, aims to spearhead heritage conservation-restoration, R&D and training activities in India, as well as in other nations in the region. It will encourage collaborations and share its conservation expertise through its interlinked units,
The Museum Art Conservation Centre (MACC)
The CSMVS MACC is housed in an area of 4000 sqft in the Kalaghoda art district of Mumbai. The facility has a climate controlled environment and round the clock CCTV surveillance. MACC offers its conservation, research and documentation services to various museums, cultural institutions and private collections. The facility is manned by a team of dedicated art conservators-restorers and support teams who are trained to conserve art objects of various materials and technologies. Mr. Anupam Sah, an art conservation-restoration strategist, practitioner and educator presently heads the art conservation, research and training units and the Centre is being developed under his direction, in consultation with the CSMVS Board of Trustees, Director and Curatorial Staff. By virtue of its work and its dissemination practices, the Centre is gradually making its presence felt across India and along foreign shores.
A view of the CSMVS Museum Art Conservation Centre, Mumbai
©Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai
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