Archives at NCBS to launch 80,000 plus new archival objects in Bengaluru

Join the Archives at NCBS on February 27, 2026, for the launch of 80,000 new archival objects celebrating India's scientific history.

The Archives at NCBS will be launching 80,000 plus new archival objects and more than 4,000 minutes of audio material across more than 35 collections, spanning over 100 plus years of scientific practice, imagination, and public life on February 27, 2026, at the Find, Tell, Share Stories-2026 edition.

The Archives at NCBS is a public centre for the history of science in contemporary India and the event will be held at the Dasheri auditorium in the NCBS campus.

“This year’s additions expand our holdings across diverse fields of science. The material includes letters, lab and field notebooks, photographs, audio recordings, and more. Among these are stories that challenge and complicate dominant narratives of science in India,” Archives at NCBS said.

It added that across these collections, visitors will encounter not only experiments and discoveries, but also labour, class, gender, politics, humour, institutional tensions, collaborations, and the everyday texture of doing science. The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 4 p.m. and will feature short talks introducing this year’s collections, a walkthrough of the Archives and a visit to the new exhibition launching alongside the collections.

“We will also present key public-facing projects from the past year, including our school education initiatives, developments in our preservation labs, new digital access tools, exhibitions, talks, and collaborative programs,” it added.

There will be a preview of “Beyond Treatment: Rethinking Conservation in Archives”, the latest exhibition by the Archives’ Conservation team.