Mumbai’s T2 could become world’s most visited ‘museum’

In two weeks, India's largest museum will open its glass doors to the public. Unlike other museums, though, you would need an international air ticket to enter — this museum with nearly 7,000 artefacts, a 3km long art wall and works by over 1,500 artists is actually housed inside an airport.
Somewhere between check-in and baggage claim, Mumbai's new integrated terminal T2 will show off some of the best of Indian art and craft to foreign visitors as well as Indians.

In fact, the art programme under way at T2 is so ambitious in thought, scale and design that it is unlikely that any airport in the world in the 100-year-old history of commercial flight showcases art on this scale. Take the installation at T2's departure area — it occupies 80,000 sq ft and curves along the contours of the terminal building and displays a plethora of ancient finds (some date back to the 10th century) like delicately carved windows and doorways, totems, terracotta horses, temple chariots, masks, sculptures of deities etc.
Read news in full 07/01/14 Manju V/Economic Times