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Web Address : http://www.indianlivingabroad.com/tourism/museum-artgallery.asp |
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Located in Delhi
On display are paintings, sculpture and graphic art dating from the mid 19th century
till date.
The exhibits also include works by major contemporary artists like M F Husain, Vivan
Sundaram, J Swaminathan, Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh and Bhupen Khakhar.
National Gallery of Modem Art
Jaipur House
New Delhi 110 003
Timing: 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
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Located in Delhi
Mud huts with painted walls and thatched roofs, courtyards, terracotta horses recreating
village shrines, craftsmen at work are some of the elements that add to the rural
ambience of the place.
examples of traditional Indian crafts, wooden carvings and images, metalware, especially
ewe perdue objects from Bastar, West Bengal and Bihar, clay and terracotta pots,
toys and images, folk and tribal paintings, jewellery and textiles.
(Address)
Crafts Museum (National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum)
Bhairon Road,
Pragati Maidan
New Delhi 110 001
Timings: July to September:9.30 am to 5.00 pm October to June: 9.30 am to 6.00 pm
Closed on Mondays and national holidays.
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Located in Delhi
it is a museum devoted to a display of dolls from all over India and abroad. On
view are dolls dressed in national costumes, each exquisitely Grafted and embellished.
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(Address)
Shankar's International Dolls Museum
Nehru House
Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg
New Delhi
Timing: 10.00 am to 6.00 pm
Closed on Mondays.
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Located in Delhi
This personal museum displays the relics of Mahatma Gandhi. There are original copies
of his correspondence as well as photostats of his letters and the journals he published.
(Address)
Gandhi Memorial Museum Rajghat,
New Delhi 110 002
Timing: 9.00 am to 5.30 pm
Closed on Mondays and government holidays.
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Located at Goa
The Museum of Goa concentrates
on archaeological and archival material. Consequently the sculpture collection displays
antiquities from the various Hindu dynasties that once ruled Goa.
(Address)
Museum of Goa, Daman and Diu
Directorate of Archives, Archaeology and Museum
Ashirvad Building
St. Inez, Panaji, Goa 403 001
Timings: 10.00 am to 1.00 pm 2.00 pm to 5.30 pm
Closed on Sundays and public holidays.
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Located at Kerala
The Art Gallery has on view various genres of paintings. There are sections on contemporary
Indian art, one on the paintings by Raja Ravi Varma, miniature paintings from the
Mughal and Rajasthani schools, Persian, Chinese and Japanese art and copies of murals
which embellished the walls of many temples and palaces in Kerala.
(Address)
Sri Chiira Art Gallery
Thiruvananthapuram
Timing: 8.00 am to 6.00 pm
Closed on Mondays, after 1 pm on Wednesdays and some holidays.
Located at Kerala
one of the museum's most significant sections is devoted to the personal Menon and
effectively evolution and rowth Republic. The Art Gallery section houses the arts
and crafts of Kerala especially paintings and carvings in wood and ivory.
(Address)
Art Gallery and Keishna Menon Museum
East Hill, Kozhikode 673 005
Timings: 9.30 am to 12.30 pm 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm
Closed on Mondays.
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