Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum - A World of Wonders...

Let's Light-up the Hidden Treasure of India's Cultural Heritage!!
Tucked away in the noisy congested heart of Pune city, lies an unfinished dream of truly world-class proportions. The 'Puneri wada' with its archways and corridors houses the one-man collection of Indian artifacts -The Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum.

Room after room, case after case display the one man's unceasing passion for collecting art, art that is not remote and distant but taken from the every day life of India's millions, artifacts that show Indian genius in seeking final things of life in the ordinary, the practical and the mundane.

The Museum is now stifled by all too familiar nemesis of city life, lack of space, traffic pollution and the ravages of time on priceless items from the collection. And it is now time that our generation become sensitive to the urgent need
to bring new life in to this repository of India's culture. Needless to say that there is a need for each one of us, the inheritors of Late Dr. Kelkar's collection to make a serious commitment and a noble contribution to preserve this heritage.

This is a short appeal for responsible citizens to recognize the invaluable contribution of one man's vision to India's rich cultural heritage. In its present layout the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum houses mere 12.5 % of Dr. Kelkar's extensive collection. In his quest for all that is beautiful Dr. Kelkar collected artifacts from all over India. A man obsessed, he drove his family to ruin at times, traveling across the country in search of the everyday items that reflected the past. In these items lies frozen true beauty a testimony to artistic vision married to the practical, the functional every time.
 
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