G20 Digital Museum: Culture Corridor

The G20 Digital Museum: Culture Corridor

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Based on the theme of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ One Earth. One Family. One Future, and the campaign ‘Culture Unites All,’ the G20 Digital Museum: Culture Corridor was a special project conceptualised by the Ministry of Culture, for the G20 Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi in September 2023. Recognising cultural pluralism and dynamic identities of the countries in the G20, Culture Corridor was a unique collaborative project to acknowledge and celebrate our shared culture, heritage, and humanity.

Designed as a phygital museum, this international project sought participation and national submissions from all the G20 members and the 9 invitee countries, as a powerful platform for collective storytelling. The Culture Corridor showcased the thematic curation of tangible, intangible and natural heritage that stand as iconic cultural markers spanning millennia of human civilisation.

With 29 physical ‘objects of cultural significance’ and over 150 digital and multimedia submissions under categories such as ‘iconic cultural masterpiece,’ ‘intangible cultural heritage’, ‘natural heritage’ and ‘symbols of democracy’ on display, the exhibition essays the identity and aspiration of universal humanity bringing to focus the endeavour, integrity, and purposefulness of culture.

A special feature of the G20 Digital Museum exhibition was a 180-degree immersive experiential zone presenting glimpses of each country’s built, natural, cultural, historical, or everyday examples, transporting the viewers into a G20 multiverse which is vivid, diverse, and unique. The 12-foot digital cube showcased iconic masterpieces through anamorphic content and the symbols of democracy from times immemorial.

Envisioned as a G20 legacy project, the G20 Digital Museum: Culture Corridor exhibition was conceived as a single landscape with physical objects and immersive digital displays, to provide an exhilarating experience of sound, light, and space.

The Culture Corridor opened for the Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi on 9 September 2023 and closed on 1st October 2023. The exhibition was also accompanied by a catalogue. The project was curated by Shri Birad Yajnik and supported by the National Council of Science Museums, National Gallery of Modern Art, and Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA).

Online version: http://g20digitalmuseum.com/adashboard

Catalogue: G20 Digital Museum - Culture Corridor

Media Links:

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