A city, they say, is made by its people. This adage has been proven again in the inception and execution of the Indian Music Experience museum project in Bengaluru. The Brigade Group conducted a poll at their completed apartment project located on a 20 acre plot in the heart of Bengaluru. They asked residents what use they would like to put the remaining 2 acre open plot mandated by the civic development rules to, resulting in the majority voting to develop it as a facility associated with music. A concurrent visit by the head of the Brigade Group, Mr. Jaishankar, to USA, where he visited the EMP museum at Seattle kicked in the realisation that India, given its abundant wealth of musical heritage, needed to have a similar dedicated and designed music experience zone, Thus was born the Indian Music Experience project, a museum dedicated to the experience of Indian music, to be developed at the said 2 acre plot in J.P. Nagar under the directorship of Ms. Manasi Prasad, herself an innovative experienced classical vocalist .