JOIN USIndia Foundation for the Arts, in collaboration with Munshi Aziz Bhat Museum of Central Asian and Kargil Trade Artifacts, will be presenting‘Kargil: Crossroads of Trade and Culture’, an exhibition curated by Latika Gupta, Munshi Aziz Bhat Museum of Central Asian and Kargil Trade Artifacts, Kargil, Jammu and Kashmir, from June 15.
The exhibition highlights the once cosmopolitan history of the region through the many communities and individuals associated with trade who lived and worked in Kargil.
The Munshi Aziz Bhat Museum of Central Asian & Kargil Trade Artifacts is a family operated museum dedicated to preserving the legacy of Munshi Aziz Bhat (1866-1948) a silk route trader who built one of the first caravanserais in Kargil.
Latika Gupta received the Archival and Museum Fellowship, which supports creative practitioners to engage with archival and museum collections, from IFA to curate the permanent exhibition of the Munshi Aziz Bhatt Museum of Central Asian & Kargil Trade Artifacts, Kargil.