especially items made for exhibition purposes, but does not comprehensively cover earlier periods. The Museum has smaller collections of 20
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th
-century and contemporary material, with works by 20
th
- and 21
st
-century artists, (both artists based in the Indian subcontinent and artists of South Asian origin working in the UK) and a significant holding of 20
-century and contemporary Indian film posters – a genre which is important to an understanding of the modern and contemporary visual world of South Asia.