
Art gallery · Mattancherry
Muziris Contemporary Kochi
A main gallery and a separate Viewing Room, steps from Paradesi Synagogue.
A contemporary art gallery on AB Salem Road in Jew Town, Mattancherry, a short walk from the Paradesi Synagogue. It has a main gallery and a separate Viewing Room, allowing more than one exhibition to run at a time. Its programme has included exhibitions that bring older cultural frameworks, such as the 2,000-year-old Tamil idea of landscape and emotion, into conversation with contemporary painting, sculpture, and installation.
Did you know
Bombay has the world's second-largest concentration of Art Deco buildings, after Miami.
What the cats hear
Worth knowing
- Reflective glass on some displays makes viewing harder.
What visitors liked
- Impressive, interesting installations at a permanent contemporary gallery.
- A calm, unique library-style setting for viewing art.
- Located in Jew Town, near shops and cafés.
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