The built heritage of Mumbai City often speaks to us in codes and ciphers, leaving clues and traces of its connections with water. A major trading port, Mumbai evolved into the Urbs Prima in Indis (India’s primary city) under the British Empire and the built form that evolved showcased the connections to its waters embedded into urban morphology.

A slow discovery of the city reveals a museum of urban artefacts related to various trades, cultural identities and faiths, along its celebrated heritage buildings, chaotic bazaars, narrow gullies and bustling villages, creating polaroid picture moments and narrating stories of the various connections that the city and its people have had with its waters over time.