‘Garland of Musical Melodies: Indian Miniatures of Musical Inspirations’ weaves the musical experience of viewing and listening to moods of Ragas (melodies) by way of combining the painted miniatures of musical inspirations (Ragamala paintings) along with their musical parallels. The Exhibition draws on the Images and Music collections of the two research centers of the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) - the Center for Art and Archaeology (CA & A) and the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicoloy (ARCE) - to create the grand experience.

The exhibition addresses the question -‘What makes a Temple Architecture?’ The exhibition panels describe various parts of the building and the placement of sculptures on the temple walls. A walkthrough of the temple is created with the view to give visitors a sense of circumambulating the temple and lets them to gather interesting details about the building. The visuals and drawings used for the exhibition are drawn from the CA&A’s collection of a 10th century Ambika temple in Jagat, Udaipur, Rajasthan.