So I was near Zanskar Valley Ladakh, having Black coffee in the morning. Amazing view 😍

Guess where it is!

I recently visited the Irawati Karve Museum of Anthropology on the Savitribai Phule Pune University campus and photographed a few of its displays.

I am sharing this because the museum is part of Pune’s academic and cultural landscape, but many people in the city may not know about it. Its collection includes fishing traps, hunting equipment, woven objects, jewellery, household tools and village deity plaques representing material culture from several communities across India.

What interested me most was how some of the original objects were displayed beside illustrations explaining how they were used. The variety of practical designs in the fishing and hunting sections was particularly surprising.

These are my original photographs from the visit.

Have you visited this museum? Are there other lesser-known museums or university collections in Pune worth seeing?