Economic & Political Weekly EPW february 7, 2015 vol l no 6 79 POSTSCRIPT PROFILE | MUSEUMS Anchoring the Past A plan to resurrect Mumbai’s eastern docklands and maritime history would be incomplete without promoting the Marine Museum at Nhava. Anurag Mazumdar I s it possible to conceive of Mumbai as a port city that is surrounded by water on three sides, whose maritime his- tory goes back to 4,000 years? Until the inauguration of the Eastern Freeway – an elevated road that connects the eastern suburbs to the southern “town” passing through the