The National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai was opened in 1996. It hosts various exhibitions and art collections of famous artists, sculptors and different civilizations

The idea of a National art gallery was first mooted in 1949, and further developed by Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru and Maulana Azad, bureaucrats such as Humayun Kabir and the local art community.

The Gallery is run and administered as a subordinate office to the Department of Culture, Government of India. It showcases the changing art forms through the passage of the last hundred and fifty years starting from about 1857 in the field of Visual art and Plastic arts.