National Gallery of Modern Art
The National
Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) is the premier art gallery under Ministry of Culture, Government of India.The main museum at Jaipur House in New Delhi was
established on March 29, 1954 by the Government
of India, with subsequent branches at Mumbai and Bangalore. Its collection
of more than 14,000 works includes works by artists such as Thomas Daniell, Raja Ravi Verma, Abanindranath
Tagore, Rabindranath
Tagore, Gaganendranath
Tagore, Nandalal
Bose,Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil as
well as foreign artists, apart from sculptures by various artists. Some of the
oldest works preserved here date back to 1857. With 12,000 square meters
of exhibition space, the Delhi branch is one of the world's largest modern art museums.Situated at
the end of Rajpath, in the Central
Hexagon around the India Gate,
the building was a former residential palace of the Maharaja
of Jaipur, hence known as Jaipur House. The
butterfly-shaped building with a central dome and built in 1936, and designed
by Sir Arthur Bloomfield, after the construction of Lutyens' Delhi. The Central
Hexagon around the India Gate, where the buildings of leading princely states,
was itself designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
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For More Info:http://www.ngmaindia.gov.in/
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
The museum was established in 1965 in Herzeliya, Israel. The museum's main focus is on Israeli and international contemporary art. The museum building was designed by the architect Yaakov Rechter. The museum does not have a permanent collection, and hosts painting, sculpture, video, installation, photography and architecture exhibitions, as well as video installations and digital Media exhibitions.
The museum has an educational program MUZA – A Place for Visual Experience. It holds different activities in the fields of video art and photography, including workshops and courses.
The museum is known for promotion of collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian artists by showing group exhibitions and organizing meetings and workshops for artists to work together.Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art also exhibits art from different continents, showing works of artists who acclaimed in their countries but are not known well to the Western World.
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For More info:http://www.herzliyamuseum.co.il/english/
Victoria Memorial
The Victoria Memorial is a large marble building in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), West Bengal, India, which was built between 1906 and 1921. It is dedicated to the memory of Queen Victoria (1819–1901) and is now a museum and tourist destination under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture. The Memorial lies on the Maidan (grounds) by the bank of the Hooghly River, near Jawaharlal Nehru road. In January 1901, on the death of Queen Victoria, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and Viceroy of India, suggested the creation of a fitting memorial. He proposed the construction of a grand building with a museum and gardens. The Victoria Memorial's architect was William Emerson (1843–1924), president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. The design is in the Indo-Saracenic revivalist style. This style uses a mixture of British and Mughal elements as well asVenetian, Egyptian, Deccani and Islamic architectural influences. The Victoria Memorial has a number of galleries, 25 in all. These include the royal gallery, the national leaders gallery, the portrait gallery, central hall, the sculpture gallery, the arms and armoury gallery and the newer, Calcutta gallery. The Victoria Memorial has the largest single collection of the works of Thomas Daniell (1749–1840) and his nephew, William Daniell (1769–1837). The Victoria Memorial also has a collection of rare and antiquarian books such as the illustrated works of William Shakespeare, the Arabian Nights and the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam as well as books about kathak dance and thumri music by Wazid Ali Shah.
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L.A Mayer Institute for Islamic Art
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The L.A.
Mayer Institute for Islamic Art is a museum in Jerusalem, Israel, established in 1974. It is located
in Katamon, down the road from the Jerusalem Theater. The museum houses Islamic pottery,
textiles, jewelry, ceremonial objects and other Islamic cultural artifacts. It
is not to be confused with the Islamic Museum, Jerusalem. The museum was founded by Vera Bryce Salomons, daughter
of Sir David Lionel
Salomons, in memory of her professor, Leo Aryeh Mayer, rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
a scholar of Islamic art who died in 1959. It has nine galleries organized
in chronological order, exploring the beliefs and art of Islamic civilization.
In addition to Mayer's private collection, the museum houses antique chess
pieces, dominoes and playing cards; daggers, swords, helmets; textiles;
jewelry; glassware, pottery and metalware produced in Islamic countries, from Spain to India.
A collection of Islamic carpets was added in 1999. A gallery in the museum also displays
the David Salomons clock and watch collection. Salomons was the nephew of the
first Jewish Lord Mayor of London. On 15 April 1983 some 200 items,
including paintings and dozens of rare clocks and watches, were stolen when the
museum was burgled. On November 18, 2008, French and Israeli
police officials discovered 43 more stolen timepieces in two bank safes in
France. Of the 106 rare timepieces stolen in 1983, 96 have now been recovered.
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Salar Jung Museum
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The Salar Jung Museum is an art museum located at Darushifa,on the southern bank of the Musi river in the city of Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
It is one of the three National Museums of India and is one of the largest museums in the world.It has a collection of sculptures, paintings, carvings, textiles, manuscripts, ceramics, metallic artefacts, carpets, clocks, and furniture from Japan,China, Burma, Nepal, India, Persia, Egypt, Europe, and North America. The major portion of this collection was acquired by Nawab Mir Yousuf Ali Khan popularly known as Salar Jung III. The zeal for acquiring art objects continued as a family tradition for three generations of Salar Jungs.
The Museum is regularly organizing special exhibitions and workshops in collaboration with International Museums and organizations. The museum publishes guide-Books, brochures, research Journals, and books on selected subjects in English, Hindi and Urdu languages. Seminars and workshops are being organized on special occasions . As one of the museums of “National importance” in India, the Salar Jung Museum is meant to function as a cultural centre through exhibits, research projects and planned activities as a cultural centre both in educational and as a centre of national integration
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The Siebenberg House
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The Siebenberg House in Jerusalem is actually famous for Artifacts from both the First and Second Temple Periods which have been found under this area of land. The founder of the museum, Theo Siebenberg, moved to the Old City of Jerusalem in 1970 and started excavating underneath his home in order to fulfill his lifelong dream of finding an inextricable link between the Jerusalem of today and the Jerusalem of nearly three thousand years ago.
The excavations carried out underneath the Siebenberg home in the course of 18 years have revealed remains of ancient dwellings, rooms cut from rock, mikvahs (ritual baths) an aqueduct, two huge cisterns and a burial vault, reaching back 3,000 years to the days of King David and the First Temple period, as well as from the Second Temple period.
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varaya Industrial and Technological Museum
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The Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bangalore(VITM), was established in memory of Bharat Ratna Sir M Visvesvaraya. This is a classical and modest building with a built up area of 4000 m2, was constructed in the breathtaking surrounding of the Cubbon Park.
It houses various scientific experiments and engines, which was opened by the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on 14.07.1962. The first gallery set up at VITM on the theme ‘Electricity” was opened to the public on 27.07.1965.
The "Engine Hall" exhibits engines of various automobiles, machines used in industry, a jet aircraft engine, and other mechanical devices.
The 'Dinosaur enclave ' has a moving replica of a Spinosaurus.Biotechnology hall also on the second floor of the Museum has exhibits on basics of Biotechnology and its applications. The first floor of the Museum houses the 'Fun Science gallery' that displays exhibits on sciences of sound, optics, fluids, math and perception. There are about 60 fun-filled exhibits in this gallery and people throng every exhibit in large numbers to operate them.
For furthur info: http://www.vismuseum.gov.in/
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Eretz Israel Museum
The Eretz Israel Museum is a historical and archeological museum in the Ramat Aviv neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel.
Eretz Israel Museum, established in 1953, has a large display of archaeological, anthropological and historical artifacts organized in a series of exhibition pavilions on its grounds. Each pavilion is dedicated to a different subject: glassware, ceramics, coins, copper and more.[1] The museum also has a planetarium. The "Man and His Work" wing features live demonstrations of ancient methods of weaving, jewelry and pottery making, grain grinding and bread baking. Tel Quasile, an excavation in which 12 distinct layers of culture have been uncovered, is on the grounds of the museum.
The education wing is a center for study and enrichment, whose objective is to bring diverse audiences closer to the worlds of content that the museum offers. The wing is innovative and inventive, aware of and attentive to the country's culture and society and the needs of the education system.