Devrukh Museum

Devrukh Shikshan Prasarak Mandal (DSPM) was founded in 1927 by Hon. Late Shri Dadasaheb Malvankar, first Lok Sabha Speaker of independent India, Dadasaheb Pitre, Kakasaheb Pandit, Vinayakrao Ketkar, and such other like-minded people who worked towards the cause of education and upliftment of the masses in rural Konkan. Today the institution successfully runs a High School, an Arts-Commerce-Science College, an English Medium School and a Computer Training Centre.
In order that the work of talented sons of the soil be preserved within Konkan, paintings were painstakingly collected by the 4th President of the institution, Late Shri Arun V Athalye, who was ably guided in his effort by Late Shri V S Gurjar, Some of the paintings collected by Late Shri Mulye Master were generously donated by his family to Mr. Arun Athalye for the Devrukh Shikshan Prasarak Mandal.

The paintings in this collection are rendered by artists who belonged to a tradition of painters known as 'Bombay School of Art'. These painters and artists range from the three generations of the Pestonji Family, Pestonji Bomanji, Eruksha Pestonji and Dadiseth Eruksha, the father and son duo of the Haldankars, Late V S Gurjar, Late M V Dhurandhar, Late N R Sardesai, Late Dinanath Dalal and such other eminent artists whose work spans from 1850 through 1950 and beyond. Most of these eminent artists hailed from the Konkan region from the districts of Mumbai, Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri, and Sindhudurg in Maharashtra, and who went on to later acquire nationwide recognition and worldwide fame.