Lucknow Bioscope

A City Museum of Culture

The city museum offers a unique glimpse into Lucknow's history through its people, lifestyles, communities, art, music, architecture, cuisine and literature. Uncover the sandooqchi full of a myriad of tales that make Lucknow truly special.

Vision

Explore, preserve and promote Lucknow's extraordinarily syncretic heritage and its artistic, cultural and historical significance.

Mission

Institutionalise a first-of-its-kind permanent museum devoted to the spirit of Lakhnaviyat, open to the public and housing the known, rediscovered, and yet to be uncovered treasures of the city.

 

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Focus & Practice

Conserve ♦ Educate ♦ Entertain

Lucknow Bioscope will acquire, preserve, research, document, communicate, perform, publish and exhibit the evidence and expressions of Lakhnaviyat within historical and contemporary contexts - for purposes of conservation, education and entertainment.

Virtual Museum

People across the world will be able to experience Lucknow’s art, history and culture through an online immersion using Google Arts and Culture platform. The state-of-the-art online collection will allow access to a living repository of archives and materials including artefacts, books, letters, music, paintings, photographs, and videos documenting Lucknow’s heritage.

Physical Museum

Located within the heart of the city, where the old meets new and at a stone’s throw from Nawabi palaces on one hand and the churches of Hazratganj on the other.

Behind Lucknow Bioscope

Sanatkada Trust

Incorporated in 2019, Sanatkada Trust was established to accommodate the expanding non-profit vision of Sanatkada and to better administer a growing scope of activities in Lucknow and the Awadh region.