About – YK Antiques

Our Journey

From collecting Antiques to curating a Home Museum

“Even as a child, I would spend most of the time with my mother’s kitchen utensils. I was often buzzing around these old antiques, arranging them to create an interesting pattern or simply making noise in the name of music,” recollects the antique collector whose passion for antiques has an interesting story behind it. Hailing from a traditional family in Someshwaram Kakinada, Y Krishnamurthy’s zeal for antiques began when his mother got her brass set to their flat in Chennai at the beginning of his career. The display area of his living room turned into an unofficial museum with people started talking about their childhood nostalgia, those good old days, and their grandma’s culinary marvels. This happy accident paved way for a lifelong desire to preserve these relics and thus began the saga of collecting antiques. Most of his collections are sourced from known families directly. Every piece had an intriguing tale- the tale of its maker, its user, and the object itself! The collection eventually grew into a repository with enthralling experiences.

Y Krishnamurthy’s travels added new accounts to his never-ending bucket list. His interest in collecting antiques grew as much as the space he had for them at home. He often insisted on bigger accommodation than a bulky salary throughout his corporate career and left behind none of his collections moving to a new place. Bidding goodbye to the corporate world Krishnamurthi began consulting for a startup in Hyderabad, where his new teammates were youngsters. They are completely smitten by his antique collection and his zeal to preserve them.

The digital era helped Krishnamurthy venture into the world of the internet. Convinced by his teammates to begin talking about his love for antiques, he began writing blogs and articles on WordPress under the name YK Antiques. With a simple camera in hand and years of experience as words, he published his first article that changed everything. The digital voyage with young minds onboard YK antiques grew from blogs to articles to online followers. The dynamic team took over the digital media with Facebook posts, Instagram shares, and YouTube channels whose voluntary contribution added new dimensions. House no.16/3, Lothukunta was no less than a museum that drew the media’s attention with time. Newspapers, TV channels, and other media avenues started visiting and publishing stories about YK Antiques.

We turned a new leaf when YK antiques museum became “YK antiques home museum” when an initiative was proposed by Mr. Anant Maringanti (founder of Hyderabad Urban Lab). With HUL organizing visits with a multicultural team of architects, students, historians and literature enthusiasts, new experiences were created around the antiques. We opened doors to interesting conversation, cultural visits and curious minds who wanted to know more about the antiques and cultures.

We are a museum without boundaries committed to telling the tales of the bygone times to our future generations. Our vision is driven by an avid curiosity to preserve these tales. We strongly believe that the antiques are reliable witnesses of our culture and documents of our tradition.