27.06.2026 | Saturday | 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM

 

Citi-CSMVS Museum on Wheels

 

About the Museum

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) is one of the premier museums in the country. Situated at the southern tip of Mumbai on the 'Crescent Site', the Museum building is a fine example of the Indo-Saracenic architectural style - a combination of Hindu, Islamic and Western architecture. The Museum houses over 72,000 artifacts with a variety of objects from pre-historic to contemporary times, from India and abroad. Besides these, the Museum has a Natural History section as well.

 

About Citi-CSMVS Museum on Wheels

The Citi-CSMVS Museum on Wheels is a pioneering outreach initiative of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, now over more than 10 years old. It is designed to reach audiences beyond the walls of the Museum, into the far-reaching parts of suburban Mumbai and further into the interiors of the state of Maharashtra and beyond. The project has two large, air-conditioned, state-of-the-art buses, custom-designed to house travelling exhibitions. The exhibition themes are selected keeping in mind school curriculum and draw from the CSMVS' vast collection of antiquities. These mobile exhibitions are taken to various educational and cultural institutions for deeper and wider engagement with heritage, arts and sciences.

 

Networks of the Past: India and the Ancient World

Four civilisations —Harappa, Mesopotamia, Egypt and China—emerged independently along fertile river banks, relying on predictable or managed annual flooding to enrich the soil, creating agricultural surpluses that supported dense populations and specialised labour. Mesopotamia is often credited as the earliest civilisation, developing cuneiform writing, city-states, and complex codes of law. Ancient Egypt fostered a stable, centralised state ruled by Pharaohs and left behind monumental architecture like the pyramids and hieroglyphic writing. The Harappan (Sindhu-Sarasvati or Indus Valley) Civilisation was distinguished by sophisticated urban planning with added links. The Chinese civilisation, with dynastic rule, mass-produced fine crafts in clay, bronze and jade as well as a system of writing that laid the foundation for a continuous Chinese cultural identity. These four pillars of antiquity shaped the cultural, social and technological basis of our world today.

 

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