National Crafts Museum

The National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum commonly known as National Crafts Museum in New Delhi is one of the largest crafts museums in India designed by Charles Correa between 1975 and 1990. A result of the nation-building process post-independence - Emergence of India as a ‘crafts nation`, rooting the traditions and cultural heritage of a nation that also had modern aspirations. This was also the result of the leadership of powerful women like Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and Pupul Jayakar, who with others helped forge the idea of India as a crafts nation even as they made possible new roles for women within the fields of crafts that were previously male-dominated.