Additionally, Nicholson organized two public exhibitions at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), in Mumbai, 1998 and in Delhi, 1999, where he displayed more than 250 works from his private collection.

In 2008, the foundation entered a partnership with the CSMVS to set up the Jehangir Nicholson Gallery (opened in 2011) as the modern and contemporary art wing in the East Annexe of the museum.

[6] The Jehangir Nicholson Collection has great historical interest and importance because it often covers a wide range of works chronologically for each of the artists, adding understanding to the dimension and scope of representations.

The core strength of the collection lies in its comprehensiveness of the works by the Bombay Progressive Artists and their contemporaries, including S. H. Raza, K. H. Ara, V. S. Gaitonde, Tyeb Mehta, M. F. Husain, Akbar Padamsee, Ram Kumar, Krishen Khanna, F. N. Souza, and Laxman Shreshtha.

[citation needed] Aside from two-dimensional pieces, the collection also contains works from sculptors such as Pilloo Pochkhanawala, Adi Davierwala, Sankho Chaudhuri, Ramesh Pateria, Nagji Patel, and B.