Gurugram: An Air India-commissioned poster from 1976 shows four King’s Guards looking at an impostor—the airlines’ mascot Maharaja. He is wearing a turban instead of the Buckingham Palace guards’ bearskin hats. A 1978 poster shows just the face and hat of a guard, looking up as the Maharaja flies onto a nest atop his hat, in the form of a dove. Both advertise Air India’s flights to London. Painted by VV Shetye, these are two of the 55 vintage posters on display at the Heritage Transport Museum located at Tauro, Gurugram.

On a sunny Sunday afternoon, journalists and art enthusiasts gathered for a glimpse of a collection of vintage transport posters. The exhibition marked 12 years of the museum, which was set up under a public-private collaboration by hotelier Tarun Thakral.

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