Mahira is an Urdu name meaning Expert, Adept, Skilled, Acquainted and Accomplished. We are located in one of New Delhi’s most magnificent historic districts, Purani Dilli or Old Delhi, where the past and present seamlessly coalesce and become a spectacle. It was in the year 2016 when the vision of Mahira was brought to life by a group of young professionals with expertise in diverse fields related to education, art and culture. The founding members envisaged to create an organisation of a national repute, dedicated to empower and educate, diverse groups and communities through artistic and pedagogical interventions. Mahira Foundation functions as a multi-faceted cultural agency that specialises in helping museums, archives and cultural institutions such as public and private collections understand their strengths, identify opportunities and work in new ways. Our services comprise Research, Documentation, Archiving, Collection Management, Conservation, Exhibitions and Project Development. We assist museums and cultural institutions to increase the public benefit of their assets - their people, their collections, their buildings, their skills, their networks and their knowledge. As a part of our initiative, we also organise public engagement activities such as heritage walks, exhibitions, lectures, workshops, seminars, education and outreach programmes. We believe that with the help of these pedagogical tools we can promote and facilitate artistic and socio-cultural learning experiences among individuals. Mahira is constantly growing and extending its reach in allied fields such as consultancy, digital marketing as well as, one of its kind, the heritage online store. Mahira Foundation emerges as a platform and the one stop solution to all services in the field. This foundation aims to disseminate art to the people of all kinds and backgrounds.
