Urban Heritage

The ‘Mapped!’ exhibition, meticulously curated by the Rotary Club of Bombay’s Urban Heritage Committee (UHC), ended on a spectacular note. Visitor numbers skyrocketed in the final week, with [...]

By Rtn. Aditya V. Somani Vidya Balan visited the Rotary Club of Bombay’s Mapped! exhibition at the Asiatic Society Mumbai and launched ‘A Wardrobe Full of Stories’. The event, [...]

The Urban Heritage Committee (UHC) launched the highly anticipated second edition of its captivating cartographic exhibition, ‘Mapped: Surveys That Left Behind a Legacy,’ at the esteemed Asiatic [...]

As part of a calendar of events celebrating Mapped, the exhibition of vintage surveys at the Durbar Hall, Asiatic Society of Bombay, the Rotary Club of Bombay recently welcomed over 160 map [...]

Back in 2019, the Urban Heritage Committee of the Rotary Club of Bombay extended their support to the Asiatic Society of Mumbai for a Cartographic Conservation Project, with an aim to conserve [...]

The Urban Heritage Committee is delighted to report that its Adopt-a-Book Program has raised a whopping amount of INR 10.8 lakhs over the course of the last few months. Our own PP Shailesh [...]

‘Repair and Restoration: Let’s Talk about Mumbai’s Modern Heritage’, a presentation on Swastik Court by Atul Kumar, Founder Trustee, Art Deco Mumbai, followed by a [...]

The Killa-e-Lizzat culinary walk organised by RCB’s Urban Heritage Committee on February 4th began at 8.30 a.m. outside St Thomas’ Cathedral where 22 eager and hungry Rotarians began what was a [...]

RCB was delighted to bring to its members an exclusive event on 6 October 2022 when the Paranjoti Academy Chorus (PAC) one of India’s oldest and possibly best choral groups performed at the [...]

Rhythm of India, a fundraiser organised by the Urban Heritage Committee of Rotary Club of Bombay, mesmerised and educated the audience on Friday, August 12th, 2022, with a sitar performance by [...]

In 2015, The Indian Textile and Costume Gallery, the first in the city of Mumbai, was established at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS). CSMVS has a modest but significant [...]

The story of British Bombay begins with one solitary European structure, the former Manor House of the Portuguese landlord of Bombaim, Garcia da Orta, which was quickly rechristened Bombay [...]