Eka Archiving Services archives, collectors, public Pvt. Ltd established in institutions, government 2010 is India’s first agencies, corporates, art museum advisory firm galleries and international (www.ekaresources.com). cultural bodies amongst The company provides several others. The advisory services for company has established nuanced aspects of cultural tremendous goodwill and heritage management internationally and has and managing a range accrued much on-the- of artefacts that vary ground experience in greatly in their materiality the field of culture. It is like textiles, photographs, now increasing its global paintings, manuscripts, and domestic footprint jewellery, ceramics, ivory, by interacting with glass, wood, stone, metal international museums, etc. The company advises funding bodies and and provides services partnering with newer ABOUT US to museums, private collectors. Principals and founders cataloguing solutions of the company, Pramod for a variety of archives, Kumar KG and Deepthi the company also offers Sasidharan have a specialised domain proven track record of expertise as a museum successful projects in advisory. Appraising art the field prior to the and material cultural establishment of Eka and artefacts have varied have together worked with from first person art collections since 2010. evaluation of collections While the core of Eka’s in palaces, private estates specialization continues to non-profit Trusts and with documentation and Foundations. OUR SPECIALIST SERVICES INCLUDE • Creating Master Plans & • Support services to Strategic documents museums and archives • Cataloguing art collections • Conservation and risk • Customized independent analysis of material research projects • Material Culture profiles • Collection valuation & • Books & Publications appraisals • Multi-Media interfaces • Museum planning, building • Outreach activities and revamping existing • Collection acquisitions and facilities de-accessioning Our team comprises of professionals with extensive experience and a variety of skills that span projects and strategic planning, museum exhibitions, archiving, documentation and cataloguing, conservation, evaluation, research and outreach activities amongst other areas. In addition to the team listed below, the company frequently taps into a vast pool of professional associates in the field who are domain experts and collaborate with us on projects. Savita N. Mehta Library & Museum, Porbandar, Gujarat (June 2019 - Ongoing) Eka will work towards and decorated danseuse, building a museum and scholar and culture patron. library dedicated to Her legacy of lovingly Savitaben N. Mehta, collected books and Founder of Arya Kanya knowledge will be shared Gurukul. Savitaben, with the communities she known lovingly to all as worked with through the Didiji was a celebrated creation of a Library. Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (February 2019 - Ongoing) Established by the prolific profit organization intends art collector Kiran Nadar, to exemplify the dynamic the Kiran Nadar Museum relationship between art of Art (KNMA) is India’s and culture through its first private museum of exhibitions, publications, art exhibiting modern educational, and public and contemporary works programs. from India and the sub- Eka is advising KNMA continent. The KNMA as on various aspects of a non-commercial, not-for- collection management. Somaiya Vidyavihar Museum (January 2019 - Ongoing) ON-GOING PROJECTS Somaiya Vidyavihar educational trust it was recently approved has built educational as a University on 7th institutions in Mumbai, August 2019 making it rural Maharashtra the first private university and Karnataka, and in Mumbai. Run by an undertakes several educational initiatives Sciences and Commerce for the benefit of the programs, as for its Community using programs for academic education as means of studies in various faiths development. Somaiya and cultures of India. Vidyavihar encompasses Eka is working with 34 institutions, with more Somaiya Vidyavihar on than 39,000 students and a digitisation project to 1,500 faculty. Its main collate vintage resources campus is in Mumbai, and aim to build an but Somaiya Vidyavihar Institutional archive which also operates six schools will enrich the campus and in rural India. It is known provide its students an as much for its Science, accessible repository of art Technology, Engineering, objects to study from. Management, Social Bastion Bungalow Museum, Fort Kochi, Kerala (July 2018 - Ongoing) Bastion Bungalow, into a world class District situated inside Fort Kochi, Heritage Museum. Eka is is one of the oldest Dutch advising the Department heritage sites in India. of Archaeology, Built by the Dutch in 1663, Government of Kerala it was built as a part of in setting up of the Fort Immanuel, but later Museum. We are on though the Fort was providing a range of destroyed by the British, curatorial services from the Bungalow remained Design and Layout intact. The bungalow of the Galleries, Text was recently declared content, Signage, a District Heritage Disaster Management, Museum by the Kerala Conservation of Objects, Government and plans and Interactive Display are afoot to upgrade Strategies. Indira - A life of Courage, New Delhi PRA-KASHI Silk, Gold Silver from the City of Light, New Delhi Moda Goa Museum & Research Centre, Goa (March 2018 – Ongoing) The dream project of designer Wendell Rodricks, Eka is engaged in an advisory role in the planning of a private museum which will combine the opportunity to experience a historic home and view narratives from the rich and long history of Goa, in the sylvan setting of a traditional village. Wipro Limited, Wipro Archives & Resource Centre Bengaluru, Karnataka (October 2017 - Ongoing) Eka is advising Wipro Ltd. in the creation of its business archives and mapping its corporate history. Gen. Amar Singh Library & Museum Trust, Kanota, Jaipur (2011 - Ongoing) The General Amar Singh and storage. Library and Museum Phase II of the Museum at Castle Kanota was had Eka establish opened to the public in additional galleries within January 2013, inaugurated the complex. Eka is now by Maharaja Gaj Singh engaged in Phase III of of Jodhpur and Princess the Museum where an Diya Kumari of Jaipur. arms and armour gallery, Prior to this, Eka spent two will showcase the rich years documenting the history and symbolism of collections and creating arms, particularly in the content for the exhibition context of Rajasthan, the and working with Thakurs of Kanota and conservators on display the Thikanas. Bharatiya Lok Kala Mandal Udaipur (July 2016 - Ongoing) A pioneering cultural which include garments, institution of Udaipur, textiles, ornaments, the Bharatiya Lok Kala puppets, dolls, sculpted Mandal preserves and deities, paintings etc. celebrates the folk Eka’s role is to assess traditions of Rajasthan, the institution’s current Gujarat and Madhya holdings and their Pradesh. Established program and activities in 1952, the institution’s to provide a roadmap mandate is to propagate for the future. This would folk dances, literature and include re-planning the other arts. Its in-house museum, suggesting a museum has a significant collection management collection of folk artefacts plan for the institution. The Art of Heritage Group, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2016 - Ongoing) Eka was invited to Crossroads: Jewellery of first advise, plan Saudi Arabia’, opened and implement the on 3rd December documentation of the 2018 - 3rd May 2019 at collection to record the the Bahrain National collection thoroughly Museum. The second and help ascertain its exhibition – ‘Hidden scale before moving on Treasures: Jewellery from to curating it. Eka has the Kingdom of Saudi currently completed Arabia’ opened at L’École the cataloguing of the des Arts Joailliers (the collection in this phase School of Jewellery Arts) of work and recently in Dubai, UAE from completed curating two 28th March – 13th April exhibitions: The first 2019.Eka is also working in Bahrain – ‘Design towards the planning and implementation of a full- fledged ethnographic museum in Riyadh to house this national collection. Our roles include curating the entire museum and planning the museum storage and functional protocols. Gen. Amar Singh Library & Museum Trust, Kanota, Jaipur (2011 - Ongoing) The General Amar Singh display and storage. Library and Museum Phase II of the Museum at Castle Kanota was had Eka establish opened to the public in additional galleries within January 2013, inaugurated the complex. Eka is now by Maharaja Gaj Singh engaged in Phase III of of Jodhpur and Princess the Museum where an Diya Kumari of Jaipur. arms and armour gallery, Prior to this, Eka spent will showcase the rich two years documenting history and symbolism of the collections and arms, particularly in the creating content for the context of Rajasthan, the exhibition and working Thakurs of Kanota and with conservators on the Thikanas. Juna Mahal Palace & Fort Complex Dungarpur, Rajasthan (2015 – Present) The Juna Mahal complex document for the vast at Dungarpur was complex. The complex is inducted in the 2014 the oldest Rajput Fort World Monuments Watch in the country dating List on an application from the 13th century created and submitted and shows building by Eka. The present technologies of nearly scope of the project is to seven centuries with a rich create a restoration and array of decorative details preservation master plan across multiple mediums. and a strategic vision Rezwan Razack Museum