THE sense of wonder that surfaces when you walk into any museum for the first time is hard to forget — the gleaming shelves that display artefacts of yore, framed paintings or pictures that speak a thousand words or installations displayed with fine craftsmanship. The Museum Memories Project or MUME collects these precious moments of human experiences.

On their Instagram page, people have shared personal pictures and artworks along with their memories of visiting museums over the world. The project was initiated by city-based Poulomi Das of Varnika Designs, who has been a consultant with museums in India for over two decades. MUME came about during the lockdown — a distraction from the uncertainty of today and a means of oral history documentation.

A day in Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) illustrated by Deeptanshu Sanyal; Aujaswe Jain, 13, paints Albert Hall Museum in Jaipur