Archive · 8 Sep 2026
Designer Envisions Yugeen Bharat Museum as India’s Living Story
Kulapat Yantrasast is helping turn two historic government buildings in New Delhi into a very large museum.
The museum will be called the Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum.
Artists and craftspeople from many parts of India will help decorate it.
This is meant to help visitors feel that the museum belongs to all of India.
Yantrasast says people can already find facts online, so museums should give them experiences and inspiration.
The museum will display objects through big ideas instead of simply arranging them by date or place.
It will explore themes such as clothing, buildings, stars and the universe.
The old buildings will keep important designs and rooms while gaining modern museum facilities.
The goal is to connect India’s long history with its future.
Architect Kulapat Yantrasast is leading the transformation of New Delhi’s North and South Blocks into the Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum.
The project will incorporate artisans and craftsmen from across India into furniture, woodwork, stonework, metalwork and other interiors.
Yantrasast says museums must now prioritize inspiration and in-person experiences rather than information alone.
Exhibits will be organized around themes such as adornment, architecture, astrology and cosmology instead of chronology or region.
Historic interiors, frescoes, motifs, benches and selected period rooms will be preserved alongside 21st-century museum technology.
- Who
- Architect and designer Kulapat Yantrasast, his consortium, the Ministry of Culture, and artisans and craftsmen from across India.
- What
- The North Block and South Block in New Delhi are being transformed into the Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum.
- When
- Yantrasast discussed the project during a recent trip to New Delhi; his consortium was selected after a public tender the previous year.
- Where
- The museum will occupy the North Block and South Block buildings in central New Delhi.
- Why
- The project aims to make India’s cultural history accessible and inspiring while preserving the buildings’ heritage and adding modern museum technology.
- Museum name
- Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum
- Location
- North Block and South Block, New Delhi
- Project lead
- Architect and designer Kulapat Yantrasast
- Project selection
- Yantrasast’s consortium was selected by the Ministry of Culture through a public tender.
- Exhibition approach
- Collections will be arranged around themes relevant to Indian civilization rather than solely by chronology or region.
- Craft involvement
- Artisans and craftsmen from across India are being brought into the interior design.
- Heritage elements
- Frescoes, motifs, existing benches and selected historic rooms will be retained.