What we have left behind shapes us into who we are today. We have a responsibility to cradle the emotions, objects and stories that the past has bestowed us with, no matter whether the process is big or small.

This is Memorabilia. An archive that seeks to preserve family history, travel back in space and time and look beyond conventional modes of boxing up history.

Concept and Mission

'A family history is always representative of something larger than itself: the social, political and cultural shifts experienced by the geography in which it is set engineers its sudden detours. We have to follow its routes.'

~ Skye Arundhati Thomas, Monograph on Homeground: An exhibition of the works of Saju Kunhan

A person's life is not just of their own but goes on to influence, change and alter the lives of many others, over time. Memorabilia intends to document and organise all one has left behind- material memory, textual documents, oral history, collections, emotions and stories. 

We believe memory has its own language. Aided with an elaborate attention to minute details, Memorabilia seeks to rediscover the essence of family history as an inventory of emotional bonds within people. The greater mission is to help the essence of one's life reach those interested in peering into the magic of the past and further analyse the sociocultural narratives of the bygone days.