Poulomi Das is a Curator for cultural heritage access and inclusion, educator, blogger and a cultural interpreter leader. She has over 20 years of experience in research and documentation of Indian arts, textiles, and heritage. She curated the retrospective on contemporary dancer Astad Deboo called Breaking Boundaries in December 2022.
She is the Founder of VarnikaDesigns, a museum planning and design consultancy since 2010.
She has been a Senior Assistant Curator, Special Exhibitions & Marketing, and Outreach Officer for the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum. And, has consulted with several museums and archival projects, including the upcoming Lord Krishna Museum, Dwarka, the Bihar and Buddha Smriti Park Museums, Patna, the RBI’s Monetary Museum, Mumbai, the Hiremath Art and Heritage Foundation.
She is the Founder of the ‘The Museum Memories Project’ oral history documentation project since April 2020, the only one in the world which invites memories of museums visited by individuals across the globe. She is also a visiting faculty at several Indian institutions like NID, NIFT, Ahmedabad University, UPES and Whistling Woods International.
Poulomi is a Nehru Trust and Charles Wallace Fellow in 2015 and 2006 to the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She is also an International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) Fellow of the US government in 2010.
You can see her blog at www.varnikadesigns.blog and her website is www.varnikadesigns.com and www.themumeproject.com
Instagram: @VarnikaDesigns @museummemoriesproject
