Maggie Gee described the volume as a "brilliant miniature exposé of contemporary culture" in her review in The Guardian.

[2] The main themes of the book are the representation of what is vanishing and disappearing, the art of translation, and environmental destruction.

The Museum of Final Journeys narrates the story of a collapsing art collection in a remote province of India.

The novella addresses the theme of the ruin and the possibilities of connecting past and present through the art of narration.

As Razia Iqbal writes in Wasafiri, the novella addresses the effects of rapid industrialization in India and the question of how the writer should represent this process.