A confluence of conflicts

Conflictorium is a one-of-a-kind museum of conflicts tucked away in a corner of Ahmedabad

Hidden by a peepal tree and flanked by a mausoleum and a temple, with a church and the district court complex a stone’s throw away, stands the Conflictorium, a one-of-a-kind museum of conflicts in the country. The location itself is testimony to its existence.

Housed in the 90-year-old dilapidated Gool Lodge — it once belonged to a Parsi woman, Bachuben Nagarwala, Ahmedabad’s first hair stylist — in the bylanes of Mirzapur, the Conflictorium is a “participatory museum” that addresses conflict. The brochure says the museum seeks to act as a “third space” to create a dialogue through art.

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