Modi Govt’s Plan for the ‘World’s Largest Museum’ Raises Many Red Flags
Jahnavi Sen | 02 March 2025 | The Wire
The Narendra Modi government has promised citizens that it is building the “largest museum in the world” in Delhi, in partnership with France. While a cloud of secrecy from the government has so far meant that there is little clarity on what the Yuga Yugeen Bharat National Museum (YYBNM) will look like, an internal proposal reveals that the plan may be to retell – and remake – history in ways that suit the regime’s agenda of portraying Hinduism as eternal, Muslim rulers as villains and ‘Bharat’ as the root of modern ideas like democracy.
The ‘world’s biggest museum’ wouldn’t fit in the current National Museum premises, with space to display about 7,000-8,000 artefacts at a time. So as part of the ambitious – and controversial – Central Vista Project spearheaded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself, the national museum, or the YYBNM, will find a new home…