India, Aug. 1 -- Over 2,000 artefacts of everyday life and nearly 500 pieces of textile, including sarees, shawls and clothes used during prayer rituals - all between a century and 300 years old - will be made available for public view on August 1 at a new gallery that has opened in the Humayun Tomb Museum complex.

The Sanskriti Museum of Indian Textiles and Everyday Art is the result of a collaboration between the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC). The collection, which belonged to the Sanskriti Pratishthan, a public charitable trust, was donated to the IGNCA in 2023. The government-run cultural centre undertook preservation work on each of these pieces and textiles to make them...