At Mumbai’s Museum of Solutions (MuSo), a six-day festival made space for children and the adults around them to explore emotional wellbeing through music, making, cooking, play and simply sitting.

Inside the Museum of Solutions  in Lower Parel, the past week unfolded at two distinct volumes. There were moments of joyful noise: unfamiliar voices meeting in the Strangers Choir, children singing without worrying about getting every note right. Then there were pauses: a child intent on making something by hand, a family lingering in wonderous silence after a session, or a room learning the quiet pleasure of doing nothing at all.