India's only business museum set to undergo a makeover

IT MAY BE due to constraint of space, or changing with the times, or both, but the Indian Business Museum, housed inside the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) campus and the only one of its kind, will soon offer visitors a slice of history digitally, Debashis Chatterjee, director of IIMK, told FE.

- VIKRAM CHAUDHARY

Conceptualised in 2010 and officially opened in 2013, the museum traces the subcontinent's business history from the time of the Indus Valley Civilisation. It houses business-related historical artefacts and objects (such as replicas of ships that Indians used for trading with the world), sculptures (replicas of weights and seals from the Indus Valley), and models, photographs, documents and illustrations of medieval and modern business history from the Mughal Empire to the British Raj and new-age Indian entrepreneurs.

The museum also has exclusive pavilions set up by the Tatas, Godrej, India Post, the Indian Navy and SBI, among others, showcasing the business history of the respective organisations.