Ruchira Verma

Biography

Ruchira Verma is a project manager with expertise in digital cultural projects, partnerships, and project management. She is currently working with Google Arts & Culture on partnerships and content in India. Her research background is in cultural studies and art history with a specialisation in contemporary Indian art.

Previously Ruchira was the co-founder of Culture Collective, a company which aims to make collections accessible to the public through effective programming and developing museums, project manager at the National Museum in New Delhi, where she strategized the museum’s online presence and managed the museums’ social media handles, visitor programs, educational programmes, gallery revamping, and coordination for Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination.

She also teaches Research Methodology part-time at the College of Art, New Delhi.

At the British Museum
During her time on the International Training Programme in 2016, Ruchira was based in the Department of Asia. Her UK Partner Museum was Manchester Museum and Manchester Art Gallery.

In 2016, participants were asked to develop a proposal for an Asahi Shimbun Display – a temporary exhibition in Room 3 at the British Museum – based around a single ‘spotlight’ object.  Ruchira’s exhibition project proposal was entitled Rath Yatra: the Cosmic Journey of Lord Jagannath.

Ruchira’s place on the International Training Programme was generously supported by the British Museum Trust.

ITP Newsletter Publications
ITP Newsletter Issue 6 (2019), Connectivity in the 21st century: making collections accessible, Is engaging digitally possible and suitable for all – what are the potential issues and challenges?