Dreaming Your Own Museum with Ohida Khandakar

Dreaming Your Own Museum with Ohida Khandakar

From This Being Human by Aga Khan Museum & The Walrus Lab

May 26, 2026 · 28 min · Season 5 · Episode 2

About this episode

Ohida Khandakar discusses her film Dream Your Museum and the concept of creating a living museum through imagination and storytelling.

Some museums you visit. Others, you dream. In this episode of This Being Human , host Mai Habib sits down with artist and filmmaker Ohida Khandakar to discuss her award-winning film Dream Your Museum . Ohida reflects on how her Uncle Selim Khandakar’s collection of over 12,000 ordinary—yet utterly extraordinary—objects, acquired over 50 years, became a living museum through imagination and storytelling.  From a mud house to the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dream Your Museum rethinks exhibition spaces, emphasizing dynamic engagement with culture and everyday life as their defining attributes.  Follow along as Ohida shares her experience navigating the arts as a Muslim Indian woman, the process of curating and documenting a museum that comes to life, and why you should dream about the impossible. She also offers up the essentials to dream your own museum: inspiration, creation, and human connection. The Museum wishes to thank Nadir and Shabin Mohamed for their founding support of This Being Human. This was just one example of Muslim art that sparked curiosity and a great conversation. There is so much more to see at the Aga Khan Museum. Support the Museum's vision to…

People in this episode

Host: Mai Habib

Guest: Ohida Khandakar

Topics covered

  • museum
  • art
  • storytelling
  • cultural engagement
  • Muslim identity
  • curation

Keywords

  • Dream Your Museum
  • Ohida Khandakar
  • museum curation
  • Muslim art
  • cultural engagement
  • storytelling
  • artistic expression

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Aga Khan Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Jameel Prize

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