Not too long ago, TIME named Mumbai’s Museum of Options (MuSo) as one of many World’s Biggest Locations of 2024.
The Options Museum in Mumbai provides younger folks cutting-edge experiences to assist them change into future changemakers.
TIME’s annual World’s Greatest Locations checklist, which options 100 distinctive locations to journey and keep, has been launched. TIME has included the Mumbai Museum of Options (MuSo), a novel youngsters’s museum, in its checklist of the World’s Greatest Locations for 2024.
Located within the coronary heart of Mumbai, MuSo is a novel institution that evokes youngsters to change into the issue solvers of tomorrow. It provides a wide range of experiences, together with immersive galleries, studying and growth applications, laboratories utilizing artistic instruments, and a library with a rigorously curated choice of youngsters’s books. The museum’s overarching purpose is to encourage younger folks to assume creatively and make a constructive contribution to their communities.
Tanvi Jindal Shete, Founding father of Museum of Options, mentioned, “We’re deeply honored to be included on TIME’s World’s Biggest Locations to Go to checklist. This recognition is a testomony to our devoted workers, volunteers, and companions who’ve labored tirelessly to create a dynamic and interesting house that evokes motion and alter. The truth that MuSo has been acknowledged on this checklist lower than a yr after we started operations underscores the influence it has made so far. We thank everybody who has visited us to date and wish to take this chance to ask everybody to return and expertise MuSo. We are going to proceed our mission to encourage and educate future changemakers by creativity and innovation.”
The MuSo workforce has been working to create an setting that fosters creativity and forward-thinking expertise because the firm’s founding in 2023. The purpose is to be a spot for guests to study, uncover, and create. Quite a lot of reveals at MuSo showcase artistic approaches to issues in areas corresponding to expertise, sustainability, and the humanities. Guests can see firsthand examples of constructive change in motion. The museum additionally hosts seminars and workshops on a wide range of subjects for folks of all ages, in an effort to foster a group of lifelong learners and changemakers.
Its place as a must-visit for curious younger minds from world wide is cemented by TIME’s recognition. The museum is devoted to its purpose of enabling guests to change into brokers of change, even because it expands and modifications over time.
To create this checklist, TIME requested its world community of correspondents and contributors for suggestions on locations to go to, with a deal with those who supply new and thrilling experiences. Nominations for motels, cruises, eating places, sights, museums, parks and extra had been accepted.
The Museum of Options stands out from different youngsters’s museums in India with its distinctive solutions-driven strategy that goes past conventional play-based studying methodologies. The nonprofit, which occupies 100,000 sq. ft in Decrease Parel, Mumbai, options 4 distinctive labs the place youngsters between the ages of two and seventeen can experiment with math, physics, artwork, and different STEAM topics; use immersive experiences to handle real-world points like marine air pollution and local weather change; use electronics, woodworking, and expertise to create fashions of the whole lot from boats to robots; and find out about sustainability by composting and gardening. The museum plans to determine a Changemakers Panel by the tip of the yr, a first-of-its-kind program in India (and the world) the place youngsters between the ages of 11 and 14 would assist create new exhibits and actions.
