Bombay Star - Tropenmuseum Junior
Final day of Bombay Star on 8 March!
Children discover Bombay in Amsterdam
Tropenmuseum Junior is bringing Bombay to Amsterdam. The dynamic exhibition ‘Bombay Star’ plunges children and others into this Indian city with its millions of inhabitants.
Tropenmuseum Junior says goodbye to the exhibition Bombay Star on 8 March with a festive day filled with different activities for the whole family. Young and old plunge into the biggest Indian city with the Bombay tours. Children can paint Indian party lights and dance like in the workshop Bollywood dancing. There is also a guided tour through the India exhibition.
There is a limited amount of places available on the Bombay tours! For more information phone +31 (0)20 568 8233.
All programs are in Dutch.
In an experience lasting one and a half hours, the Bombay tour at Tropenmuseum Junior will plunge children into the life of the Indian metropolis, so rich in contrasts. It is a city of about 17 million people, with Bollywood stars in their chic apartments living alongside rubbish collectors in their humble alleys. The Bombay tour lets the people of Bombay tell their story – about their work, their families and their hopes for the future. Like Gauri, a girl with one leg, perseverance and a talent for dancing, who shines like a ‘Bombay Star’. Dancing on one leg, she symbolises the people of Bombay, whose enormous resilience allows them to keep going in spite of their problems.
Bombay tours
Guided by museum staff, many of them Indian, children learn interactively about wide-ranging aspects of life in Bombay. The city comes to life through stories, objects, dance, music, tastes and smells. Themes highlighted in the exhibition are the contrast between rich and poor, child labour, family values, a city bursting at the seams, and Bollywood, India’s popular film industry.
A video clip was made in Bombay especially for ‘Bombay Star’. It features a song by Asha Bhosle, one of India’s best-known female singers. Children who take part in the Bombay tour are filmed while dancing; the video recordings are then edited ‘realtime’ into the video clip. They shine like stars in a video clip that they can subsequently take home (for a token payment).
The book ‘Bombay Star’ (available only in Dutch) accompanies the exhibition. This photo-filled publication is also available in bookshops. Shashi, the central character, takes the reader on a search for someone to star in a video clip about Bombay. Follow Shashi on his motorbike, by train, taxi and rickshaw and meet the candidates.
Programme
Bombay tour for 6 to 13 year olds: Wednesday from 2.30 – 4 pm; weekends and school holidays 12.30 – 2 pm and 3 – 4.30 pm. Bombay tour for all ages: weekends and school holidays from 11 – 12.
Bombay tour for schools: on school days, for primary schools (intermediate and upper levels) and for the first year of secondary school. It is not possible anymore to book reservations for school groups in 2009!
Tropenmuseum Junior
Since its establishment in 1975, Tropenmuseum Junior has created hands-on exhibitions for children aged 6 to 13. Using an approach developed in-house, the museum seeks daily to engage the hearts and minds of children when learning about other cultures. Tropenmuseum Junior is part of the Tropenmuseum.
Bombay Star is brought to you with the help of:
The municipality of Amsterdam, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Mondriaan Foundation, the DOEN Foundation, the VSBfonds, the National Committee for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development (NCDO), and in cooperation with the Liliane Foundation and PLAN Nederland.
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