ThinkArts has been creating trails for museums and arts spaces such as the Indian Museum, Kolkata, the Victoria Memorial Hall Museum and the Calcutta Gallery at the Victoria Memorial, Kolkata. We have also created trails for Serendipity Arts Festival 2023 and Chennai Photo Biennale 2024.
Our work has focused on creative trails and activities for children to engage with the artworks, heritage spaces and history. We believe that such experiences create a deep impact and even though the children are ostensibly playing, they always go back with a connection to the museum and its artefacts.
For instance, the trails ThinkArts developed in 2023 were for the visual arts exhibitions at SAF 2023, curated by Veerangana Solanki and Vidya Shivadas. These trails included puzzles and information related to the exhibition, giving young people a point of access to engage with the entire exhibition.
Our activity trails use critical and creative prompts to spark curiosity. Children are encouraged to look closely, play, and make meaning from the artworks and spaces around them. As researchers Jonas Larsen and Connie Svabo note in their study of “Family Treasure Trails” in museums, such interventions can “choreograph a gaze” — guiding children to notice, touch, and connect in ways that transform adult-oriented spaces into places of discovery for young visitors. Our intention is always to make children and young people.
Through our trails, we continue to create pathways where children can explore, imagine, and build relationships with art and heritage — experiences that stay with them long after the trail ends.
Our work has focused on creative trails and activities for children to engage with the artworks, heritage spaces and history. We believe that such experiences create a deep impact and even though the children are ostensibly playing, they always go back with a connection to the museum and its artefacts.
For instance, the trails ThinkArts developed in 2023 were for the visual arts exhibitions at SAF 2023, curated by Veerangana Solanki and Vidya Shivadas. These trails included puzzles and information related to the exhibition, giving young people a point of access to engage with the entire exhibition.
Our activity trails use critical and creative prompts to spark curiosity. Children are encouraged to look closely, play, and make meaning from the artworks and spaces around them. As researchers Jonas Larsen and Connie Svabo note in their study of “Family Treasure Trails” in museums, such interventions can “choreograph a gaze” — guiding children to notice, touch, and connect in ways that transform adult-oriented spaces into places of discovery for young visitors. Our intention is always to make children and young people.
Through our trails, we continue to create pathways where children can explore, imagine, and build relationships with art and heritage — experiences that stay with them long after the trail ends.
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