The Museum
About MAP
Located in the heart of Bengaluru, MAP holds a growing collection of over 60,000 objects: paintings, sculptures, textiles, photographs, and works from popular culture, spanning the tenth century to the present day. Across six storeys, the museum brings together art galleries, digital experience centres, a research and conservation laboratory, a shop, a cafe, a members’ lounge, and a rooftop restaurant open to the sky.
MAP is a meeting place for ideas, for stories, for the kind of exchange that asks something of the person standing in front of a work. Art, at its most honest, makes the world harder to ignore. Harder to reduce. We believe in that difficulty.
The Building
Designed by Mathew & Ghosh, the building was built with accessibility as a structural commitment, not an afterthought. Its facade of embossed steel panels carries the form of an industrial water tank: a quiet argument about what is worth holding, and how. The material is honest. The architecture earns its place on the street.
The design was developed under the guidance of the MAP Architectural Committee, led by Rahul Mehrotra of RMA Architects, with Mahrukh Tarapore and the late Martand Singh as core members.
Recognition
In 2024, the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People, New Delhi, recognised MAP’s commitment to inclusive and accessible design with the 15th NCPEDP-Mphasis Universal Design Award under the Role Model Companies & Organisations category. That same year, MAP received the NDTV Samarth Hero Award for Excellence in Accessible Infrastructure.
In 2025, MAP received the NDTV Masterstroke Art Award for Museum of the Year, recognition that speaks to the work of an entire team: researchers, educators, technologists, artists, and the audiences who keep asking harder questions.
Find out more about MAP’s accessibility features in the video below!
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