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Salar Jung Museum
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India
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Salar Jung Rd, near Minar Function Hall, Darulshifa, Hyderabad, Telangana 500002
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About Salar Jung Museum
Salar Jung Museum is a popular museum in the capital city Hyderabad of Telangana of India. It is located on the bank of the Musi River at Dar-ul-Shifa. It is an art museum having more than a million objects on the display. It was inaugurated in December 1951 by former late Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru. Before that, it was a private art collection of the Salar Jung family which was endowed to the nation after Salar Jung III. It opens from Saturday to Thursday from ten in the morning to five in the evening. The museum is very close to Hyderabad Central Bus Stand. A five-minute bus ride to Uppaguda from the bus stand after which two minutes walk takes you to your desired location. If you are visiting by car, you can take the route NNH163 or NH65 and after crossing the Chatrapati Shivaji bridge you will arrive at the Salar Jung road which leads you to the museum. The museum charges Rupees twenty for an adult while children below 18 are free to enter the museum. If you are not an Indian national then you have to pay Rupees 500 to witness this masterpiece.
Some Lesser Known Facts About Salar Jung Museum
- It is one of the three National Museums of the country. And is one of the largest museums in the world.
- In addition to Indian collections, the place also features artifacts, manuscripts, paintings, and other things from other countries like China, Nepal, Persia, China, and North America.
- There are a record of holding the largest one-man collection of antiques.
- Not only the collections building itself is heart taking with big airy cellars, balconies, and round staircases.
- The other attractions includes Tipu Sultan's wardrobe, Aurangzeb's sword, guns, and other weapons of the time at the museum.
- The double statue called Mephistopheles is also an admirable piece of art.
- People visited there didn't miss the glimpse of the musical cloaks located in the museum. Though it has a huge collection of cloaks from European countries like Switzerland, England, France, and Germany. The cloak that most attracted me was a British Bracket cloak in which a miniature toy comes out and strikes the gong every hour and returns to its place.
- Apart from this, it has a big collection including Eka-Mukha Linga from 4th or 5th, Nandi from 12th century CE and much more that makes the visit memorable.
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