Welcome to a world-class experience of Indian Americans through this great National Indo-American Museum (NIAM). The museum is located in Illinois to promote an important message of the impact of globalization. In fact, a way to involve Indian Culture in the global world.

Since migration leads to cultural change, this museum shows the generations of all Indian Americans and their stories. The aim is to promote the experiences and journey of Indian Americans through art and culture. Therefore, the modern development of these people is displayed through exhibitions and various publications. Therefore, let’s dive into details.

Programs at NIAM

Indian Cuisine

While in Chicago, you can visit NIAM to understand the taste of Indian food. As Indian food is dominant in flavours and spices, the museum gives an inside tour of this ethnic marketplace. Additionally, you can experience food tasting for dishes that your heart loves. This helps Indian Americans, as well as Americans, explore the diversity of various regional cuisines. It is an excellent initiative to exchange palatable flavours in such programs.

Divine Sites

As America is home to several temples and places of worship for Indians, this program called “Sacred Sites” allows you to explore religion. It includes visits to religious places of worship. The traditions in Indian American culture are displayed with tours to temples, churches, gurdwara and mosques. Moreover, the religious landscape of Chicago is completely transformed with the existence of Indian Americans. As more Indians migrate, the religious places receive love from various existing communities of America.

Cultural Exposure

National Indo-American museum also arranges cultural events with diverse themes. The ethnic communities thereby receive an amazing opportunity to display art, dance and various Indian cultural elements to people out there. For the conduction of such programs, NIAM collaborates with various museums, universities, and organizations. This helps promote the diversified behaviour and exposure of Indian Americans towards the existing culture.

Gandhi Peace Program

Our freedom fighter, Mahatma Gandhi, has been winning hearts in Chicago through the NIAM. Gandhi’s peace program is a mission to promote strong values. That of non-violence and teachings of peace (Shanti) by Gandhi. This program is an excellent initiative by NIAM for students. The funds raised for this directly go to the promotion of the program in various Chicago Public Schools.

Look at the Virtual Galleries of NIAM

NIAM has been promoting Indian history and freedom struggle through virtual galleries. These galleries display the Indian-American experience and stories.

In fact, the gallery depicts the origin of Indian Americans dating back to 1965. It is an absolute exposure of Indian merchants and adventurers who built their ways to be Indian-Americans. Moreover, stories of Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, Manmohan Singh, Narendra Modi and many more are showcased.

Events at National Indo-American Museum

Global Dynamism in Contemporary Art:
A virtual tour that threw light on contemporary art.

From the Prosaic to the Magical:
A virtual tour to the entire guide tour of the exhibition. Moreover, it focused on the experiments in audiovisual art.

Livewire
An event where 3 Minute open mic was given to participants to jam with everyone around. In fact, you can narrate a story, or act their hearts out. Moreover, it was more like a talent program by the community.

Expositions of Transformations
The event is all about Indian dance forms. Natya Dance Theatre presents it. Moreover, the senior dancers performed interpretations of various artists.

Hence, the National Indo-American Museum is truly about the evolving community’s art, culture, and food. Therefore, you must visit this museum for an amazing experience!

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