Osianama: Moving westward, Neville Tuli, founder of auction house Osian's is all

set to open his private museum - Osianama. The aim is to fuse together fine arts,
popular culture, cinema and architecture all into one at the now remodeled Minerva
Theatre in Mumbai. Over the years, Tuli has added to his collection everything from
samurai armour to Buddhist thangkas to Marlon Brando's letters.

Dashrath Patel Museum: This museum, opened by Pinakin Patel, a senior progressive
group artist and first director of NID in Ahmedabad, is just a boat ride away from
Mumbai. Situated in lush and green Alibaug, the Dashrath Patel Museum consists of
works of the artist of the same name whose 60-year-old collection includes
ceramics, paintings, and photographs chronicling India since its Independence.
Patel is known to have collaborated with personalities like Charles Eames, Louis
Kahn, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Frei. The museum is curated by his close friend and
artist Sadanand Menon.

Coimbatore College of Contemporary Art: In what is to be a world class museum and

educational institute, art collector and sugar baroness Rajashree Pathy is working
on the opening of the COCCA next year. She has dedicated 15,000 sqft of her textile
mill to this private museum in southern town of Coimbatore.

Kolkata Museum of Modern Art: Moving eastward to Kolkata, Rakhi Sarcar of CIMA art
gallery is managing trustee of the KMOMA. This state of the art museum is set to
open in 2013. It will display both Indian and international art and will be
designed by none other than Herzog and de Meuron, the architects of the Tate Modern
and the Beijing Olympic Stadium. KMOMA plans to bring with it a refreshing change,
that of digital, new media and installation art.