Showing posts with label Ahmedabad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ahmedabad. Show all posts

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Utensil Museum, Ahmedabad - 60

Features a magnificent collection of Indian utensils. There are more than ten thousand exhibits displaying a vast range of techniques and tools used to make and decorate these household items.

An interior designer, Surendra Patel, has established an unparalleled relating to or used in cooking experience in the outlying areas of Ahmedabad along with a vivacious striking display. He is only one man behind the funny Utensils Museum in Ahmedabad . Among the celebrated museums of Ahmedabad , this place makes available to you a taste of the reliable Gujarati village culinary art before betraying through the grounds to explore the various utensils. In the rural settings the Vishalla Restaurant offers you a taste of the delightful local cuisine along with the open area wholly surrounded by walls full of a wide array of implements. The dissimilar utensils are placed in a simple structure set around an open courtyard. They have been collected from all over the country in an effort to establish the purity of form and shape in these utilitarian objects.

You can see the smasher in the well conceived and treated everyday things like pots to store water in, utensils to cook and serve in, spoons, rolling pins, or a huge vessel in which buttermilk is churned. You will have a glimpse into the lifestyles of people where these objects formed an integral part of every household and a basis for community life. Each piece was created by artisan for a specific purpose, catering to a person's every need including worship. Yet most splendid examples of them have been discarded, sold, or melted down. The Utensils Museum in Ahmedabad sponsored by a trust formed to create cultural awareness, celebrates the elegance of the simple but perfectly designed objects of everyday use.

The Utensils Museum in Ahmedabad is situated inside Vechaar Vishalla Environmental Center, opposite Vasama Toll Maka. It remains open everyday from 10:00 am to 5:00pm.

If you are on a tour of Ahmedabad, just move towards famous Utensils Museum in Ahmedabad. I am sure it gives you immense pleasure than any other beautiful area.

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Thursday, December 4, 2008

Calico Museum of Textile, Ahmedabad, Gujarat (2) - 58

Guys here I am going to focus on some beautiful issues concerned with this Calico Museum of Textile, Ahmedabad.

The Museum also has images and breaks made of bronze, sandstone and marble especially in the Jaina Gallery. Two galleries of this museum, one for the religious textiles and another for historical and other textiles. These galleries have further been split into smaller galleries focusing on specific nature of textiles.

Guys, I have seen first time that there is one lady who guides you about all the things and beauteous display of Museum. This guide speaks in fluent in English, Gujarati and Hindi so I think there will not be a problem for visitors.

The gallery opens with a small shrine simulating those found in temples and homes of wealthy devotees. On entering, the visitor is transported into a devotional aura with the jingling of traditional aarti sounds. The nine steps to the Shrine signify Navadha Bhakti. About 90 pichhwais, divided into three groups, are on display in this gallery.

Guys you can see here the manuscripts with illustrations of the scenes from the Samgrahani Sutra and patas, depicting the Jain concept of the universe and evolution of the soul the displayed in the Gallery.

You can also see on display are the Tirtha Patas, which range in style from the highly stylized figures painted in rich colours of the 15th century to the more localized folk styles of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Also on display are the Tirtha Patas, which range in style from the highly stylized figures painted in rich colours of the 15th century of the more localized folk styles of the 18th and 19th centuries.

The most former pieces of Indian trade textiles displayed in the Museum date back to the 15th century. Some of the pieces show the charm of Hindu or Islamic designs. The most mutual and most typical of the Indian cottons found during excavations at Fostat in Egypt are those that are resist-dyed with indigo.

That is why this museum known as unique museum. Unlike other museums which follow the ceremonious method of displaying the pieces in glass cases, the Calico Museum government have covered the displays with a transparent plastic film. The film is scientifically examined to make sure that it is neutral chemically. This has been done to ensure that the plastic films do not damage the dyes and the material which they want to protect.

Furthermore, the darkness between visiting hours and a inhibited lighting (approximately 50 lux level) protect the textiles from fading.

Guys, this is one of the all-around museum of antediluvian textiles, it is a different world altogether. A visit to the Calico Museum would transport any visitor to the 15th and 16th centuries, bringing alive the India of the centuries gone by, through the carved wooden facades, motifis, frescoes, icons of sandstone and bronze, brocaded fabrics, tie-dyed and block-printed textiles.

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04. Himachal Pradesh : The Library of Tibetan Works and Archives Dharmshala - 4
05. Himachal Pradesh : Bhuri Singh Museum, Shimla - 5
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07. The Nicholas Roerich Gallery, Shimla - 7
08. Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Summerhil, Shimla - 8
09. Uruswati Himalayan Folk Art Museum, Naggar - 9
10. Punjab and Haryana : Maharaja Ranjit Singh Museum, Amritsar - 10
11. Government Museum and Art Callery, Chandigarh - 11
12. The Chandigarh Architecture Museum - 12
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14. Anglo Sikh War Memorial Ferozeshah - 14
15. Art Gallery, Patiala - 15
16. Sanghol Museum, Chandigarh - 16
17. New Delhi : The National Museum - 17
18. The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi - 18
19. The Rail Museum - 19
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26. Museum of Natural History, New Delhi - 26
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28. Sarnath Archaeological Museum, Varansi, Uttar Pradesh - 28
29. Government Museum Mathura, Uttar Pradesh - 29
30. Bharat Kala Bhawan, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh - 30
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Calico Museum of Textile, Ahmedabad, Gujarat (1) - 57

Guys have you ever imagine that there is one museum exhibits the history of textile? I know, nobody can imagine it. But it is true. There is a museum of textile named "Calico Museum".

The Calico Museum of Textiles excels for its singularity and ancientness of displays. The cherishes it houses are the finest of fabrics-woven, spun, painted and printed in India over the past five centuries. Guys if you would like to have a meliorating experience then just visit at Calico Musuem.

The Calico Museum of Textiles was launched in 1949. This museum originally housed in the Calico Mills. which has been known as the heart of the textile city of Ahmedabad.

Once you visit here, you can find yourself at paradise. The paradise having tall trees, gardens, fountains, courtyards, ceramic mosaic terraces and marble floors lend a divine touch to the proud Museum.

It hosts a superb collection of textiles, pinchhwais and patachitras (paintings on cloths). So do not leave this country before visiting the Calico Museum of Textile.

Related Links :

01. Museums and Art Gallaries of India : A Survey - 1
02. Museums of Jammu and Kashmir : Sri Pratap Singh Museum Srinagar - 2
03. Art Gallery Jammu :Dogra Art Gallery - 3
04. Himachal Pradesh : The Library of Tibetan Works and Archives Dharmshala - 4
05. Himachal Pradesh : Bhuri Singh Museum, Shimla - 5
06. Shimla State Museum - 6
07. The Nicholas Roerich Gallery, Shimla - 7
08. Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Summerhil, Shimla - 8
09. Uruswati Himalayan Folk Art Museum, Naggar - 9
10. Punjab and Haryana : Maharaja Ranjit Singh Museum, Amritsar - 10
11. Government Museum and Art Callery, Chandigarh - 11
12. The Chandigarh Architecture Museum - 12
13. The Natural History Museum, Chandigarh - 13
14. Anglo Sikh War Memorial Ferozeshah - 14
15. Art Gallery, Patiala - 15
16. Sanghol Museum, Chandigarh - 16
17. New Delhi : The National Museum - 17
18. The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi - 18
19. The Rail Museum - 19
20. The Nehru Memorial Museum, New Delhi - 20
21. The Gandhi Memorial Museum (Rajghat) and the Gandhi Smriti Museum (Tees January Marg) - 21
22. Tibet House Museum, New Delhi - 22
23. The Archaeological Museum at the Red Fort, New Delhi - 23
24. International Dolls Museum, New Delhi - 24
25. The Crafts Museum at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi - 25
26. Museum of Natural History, New Delhi - 26
27. Allahabad Museum, Uttar Pradesh - 27
28. Sarnath Archaeological Museum, Varansi, Uttar Pradesh - 28
29. Government Museum Mathura, Uttar Pradesh - 29
30. Bharat Kala Bhawan, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh - 30
31. Lucknow State Museum - 31
32. Rajasthan Government Museum, Ajmer, Rajasthan - 32
33. Government Museum, Alwar, Rajasthan - 33
34. Archaeological Museum, Ajmer, Rajasthan - 34
35. Virat Nagar Museum, Bairat - 35
36. Ganga Golden Jubilee Museum, Bikaner - 36
37. Government Museum, Bharatpur - 37
38. Fort Museum, Bikaner - 38
39. Fateh Prakash Palace Museum, Chittorgarh - 39
40. The Maharaj Sawai Madho Singh Museum, Jaipur - 40
41. Government Central Museum, Jaipur - 41
42. Juneja Art Gallery, Jaipur - 42
43. Maharaja Sawai Man Singh (II) Museum, Jaipur (1) - 43
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