IFEA celebrated International Museum Day at Welcomhotel by ITC Hotels Ahmedabad, bringing together a cross-section of achievers in the world of museums, heritage tourism, the arts and crafts, heritage conservation, hospitality sector, food entrepreneurship and cake design/sugar art.
The event was curated by Anil Mulchandani, IFEA founder.
Museums and heritage sites can play an important role in the visitor experience and tourism development of the city. The growth of heritage tourism brings many benefits to the hotel and restaurant sector. Conversely, hotels can also promote museums and heritage sites to their guests.
A discussion about museums and heritage tourism was organised by IFEA at Welcomhotel by ITC Hotels. Speaking at the launch, GM of the host hotel Mr Rohit Mallick said Welcomhotel is committed to promote arts and crafts, and this is reflected in their interiors where there are Morbi tiles, ikat patterns and embroidery motifs, and cycles for heritage tours. They are now planning to open an art gallery in the hotel.
Among those invited were:
Art critic and award-winning author Esther David
Art curator and collector Anil Relia
Houseum owners Dr Hiren Shah & Dr Namita Shah
Artist Ruby jagrut
Museum and textile art revivalist Radhika Chirag Lalbhai
Sugar artist Dhvani Hindocha
Prof Kanth, Centre for Heritage Management-Ahmedabad University
Asif Shaikh, textile revivalist
Surendra Patel, Veechar Utensils Museum & Vishalla Restaurant
Karni Singh Idar, vintage and classic car museum Dowlat Villas Palace- Himmatnagar
Aaliya Farhat Babi Balasinor, activist for dinosaur site conservation
Zeba Salauddin Khan Babi Salauddin Babi , heritage hotel owners
Parul Zaveri, architect
Chirashree Thakkar, architect
Ashish Trambadia & Poonam Trambadia, conservation architects
Chandra Kumari, heritage homestay owner
Devanshu Gandhi, food industrialist (Vadilal)
Rushad Ginwala & Ariane Ginwala, theme restaurants
Lester Dsouza , Monisha Lester Dsouza and Adiya, Upper Crust
Arpana Bhuwania & Deepak Bhuwania, restaurant and boutique owners
Rajmohan Modi and family, Restaurant owner
Vaidehi and Shashank Chokhani, Kabhi B Cake Studio
Richa Dalwani, a heritage art startup entrepreneur
Manpras Spices was the gifting sponsor.
