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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Bharat Kala Bhawan, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh - 30

It has a vast collection of paintings, sculpture and textiles. The museum hosts an exquisite specimen of Nepalese and Tibetan “thankas” and paintings of contemporary artists. Ancient terracotta objects on display date back to the Harappan civilization, Mauryan, Sunga and Gupta periods. Red sandstone reliefs from the 2nd century B.C. and the Buddhist stupa from Bharhut are among the prominent attractions of the museum.

The anatomical structure of Bharat Kala Bhavan developed in January 1920. Its first Honorable Chairman (for life) was poet Rabindranath Tagore and its Honorable Vice-Chairman was poet’s nephew Silpacharya Abanindranth Tagore. But in fact the credit for the ancestry and accompanying growth of this internationally big-name museum goes to Padmavibhushan Late Rai Krishnadasa – a widely known and esteemed writer in Hindi and a innovator among the Indian art historians.

Guys and esteemed visitors you can see here various kind of galleries listed below as:

Ground Floor:

1. Mahamana Malaviya Gallery
2. Nicholas Roerich Gallery
3. Chhavi (Painting Gallery)
4. Central Hall (Temporary Exhibition)
5. Sculpture Gallery
6. Nidhi (Treasures) Gallery

First Floor:

1. Numismatic (COIN) Gallery
2. Archaeological Gallery
3. Decorative Art Gallery
4. Banaras Through The Ages Gallery
5. Gallery on Alice Boner
6. Gallery on M.K. Gupta

And following are the proposed extension of Galleries like:

1. Gallery of archive and literary materials
2. Gallery on Textiles and Costumes
3. Gallery on Metal Images

I am furnishing here the detailed address of BHARAT KALA BHAVAN for your kind information.

Address:

Bharat Kala Bhavan
Banaras Hindu University,
Varanasi-221005, INDIA
Telephone No. : 316337, 307620, 307621
Fax No. : 91(542) 316337
Email: bharatkalabhavan@sify.com

You can visit the museum office from 10.30 am to 05.00 pm. It will remain opened for visitors from 11.00 am to 04.30 pm. All these timings may change during summer i.e. in the month of (May and June). Do not go here on Sundays and University holidays because it has closed on these days.

Bharat Kala Bhavan authority charged the fee for domestic (Indian) visitors i.e. Rs. 5/- per person and for Nidhi Gallery the fee is Rs. 5/- per persons.

Entrance fee for visitors from SAARC Countries including visit to Nidhi Gallery will be charged as Rs. 20/- per person.

Entrance fee for other foreign visitors including visit to Nidhi Gallery is Rs. 40/- per person and Entrance fee for staff and students of other academic institutions of India is Rs. 2/- per person

You can use your still Camera here to grab the fantastic location they charged the fee as Rs. 10/- per camera. All bonafide staff and students of Banaras Hindu University. Scholars on invitation from BKB, members or staff of museums and art galleries in India will be entitled for free entry. But the Director will have free will to excuse the entrance fee.

Please take a note that "Video Photography" by the visitors is not allowed here. But shooting fee for commercial documentary film is Rs. 10,000/- per day and Rs. 1000/- per day for Educational documentary film.

You can collect Black & White photo prints of full size at Rs. 20/- per print, Half size at Rs. 10/- per print and Quarter size at Rs. 7/- per print.

Publication, Art Albums, Reproductions, Picture Postcards etc. available at the sales counter at office timings. You can get Coloured transparency at Rs. 30/- per slide and Coloured photograph with special permission.

You can take an advantage of Seminar Hall that has been available between 11.00 am to 05.00 pm by paying affordable rate of Rs. 250/- for four hours (you can book it at any time between 11.00 am & 04.30 pm). Keep in mind that you can charged Rs. 100/- extra for every extra hour.

You can pay Rs. 250/- per day between 11.00 am to 04.30 pm for Exhibition Hall. You can only allow only the materials to exhibit related to museums area of specialization. The rates are subject to periodical revision.

I suggest to all Principals and School Authorities to plan a trip at Bharat Kala Bhawan to show the Indian culture to their future India (i.e. students).

Government Museum Mathura, Uttar Pradesh - 29

Dear visitors, this Government Museum Mathura is located near the Dampier Park. You can visit here anytime round the year from 09.30 am to 06.00 pm. You can find here sculptures and bronzes. Just hire a cab or auto from the hotel and reach at this fantastic place.

The museum is a treasure trove of sculptures, coins, terracotta, inscribed bricks, pottery pieces, clay seals and bronze objects.

The Government Museum of Mathura that domiciliates an fantabulous collection of sculptures belonging to the ancient Mathura school of art is one of the chairing museums of not only Uttar Pradesh but also India. Sir F.S. Growse originally established this museum in the year 1874. Government Museum of Mathura that is also called "Mathura Museum" is believed one of the leading centers for research, study and the conservation of the heritage left by the Mathura School of Sculpture.

The museum is currently housed near the historic Dampier Park in Mathura. The building of the museum itself is worth visiting. This aesthetically beautiful and pleasant building is octangular in shape and is made out of the red-sandstone. The museum show off of the largest, vivid and the most excellent collection of Kushana sculptures in the country. The Museum also has very proud collections of stone sculpture and terracotta. Most of them belong to the Kushana period and after. Apart from that, the museum also has a glorious collection of gold, silver and copper coins, clay seals, ancient pottery, paintings and bronzes among others. So, do not miss to see this marvelous location.

Sarnath Archaeological Museum, Varansi, Uttar Pradesh - 28

The main exhibit includes one of the earliest images of Buddha. It also has the prized Ashokan pillar and a large collection of figures and sculptures form the Mauryan, Kushan and Gupta periods.

Sarnath Archaeological Museum is known as an oldest museum of the Archaeological Survey of India. In order to maintain the ancientnesses found from this site, a conclusion was taken in 1904 by the Government to build a site museum next to the dug up site at Sarnath. The building was completed in 1910 to house, display and study the ancientnesses. The building forms half of a religious residence (Sangharama) in plan. There are five galleries and two verandahs. The antiquities in the museum are dateable from 3rd century BC to 12th century AD.

The galleries have been baptized on the basis of their contents, the northern most gallery is Tathagata while next one is Triratna. The main hall is known as Shakyasimha gallery and adjacent to it on south is named as Trimurti. The southern most is Ashutosh gallery, the verandahs on northern and southern side are named as Vastumandana and shilparatna respectively.

Trimurti gallery contains pot curving outward seated Yaksha figure, image of Trimurti (Brahama, Vishnu and Mahesh) Surya, Saraswati, Mahisasur mardini and some secular objects like figures of birds, animals, male and female heads as well as some stucco figures.

Ashutosh gallery exhibits Brahmanical deities like Shiva in different forms, Vishnu, Ganesh, Kartikeya, Agni, Parvati, Navagrahas, Bhairava and a colossal Andhakasuravadha (killing of demon Andhaka) by Shiva.

Mostly architectural members are on display at two verandahs of the museum. A large lintel depicting story of shantivadina Jataka is a beautiful piece of Art.

This museum remains open from 10.00 am to 05.00 pm and closed on Fridays.

Entrance Fee : Rs. 2/- per head and children up to 15 years free to see this unique museum.

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

Allahabad Museum, Uttar Pradesh - 27

The Allahabad museum has in impressive collection from the Maurya, Sunga, Kushan and Gupta periods. It also hosts sculptural masterpieces from the early medieval period.

Guys, this museum is located right in the heart of the city behind Alfred Park. You can visit here anytime round the year from 09.30 am to 06.00 pm except Monday. Artifacts and miniatures are the attractions of Allahabad Museum. You can reach here by hiring a cab or auto from the hotel or take a rickshaw if you happen to stay in the locality.

It is one of the best-known museums in India and that is what makes it a must visit destination in Allahabad. The distinctiveness of this museum lies in the fact that it has separate galleries dedicated to archeological determinations, natural history demonstrates, art gallery and artifacts gifted by Jawaharlal Nehru.

The first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, himself kicked off Allahabad Museum in 1947. The museum features off a large collection of displays that are broke up across whopping 18 galleries. The objects on view include unfashionable and Indus Valley ancientnesses, stone sculpture, terracotta, bronzes, seals, miniature paintings, Buddhist thanks, textiles, weapons, gothic land grants as well as documents and the personal effects of Nehru and the freedom movement.

You can find here beauteous stone images, elaborately cut up temple pillars and headers dating from the 3rd century BC to the 12th century AD, represent important families, both ancient and nonmodern. There are ancientnesses from nearly all the renowned schools of sculptures namely Gandhara, Mathura, Kausambi and Sarnath. So, do not miss the opportunity to sse the Allahabad Musem if you are travelling across the Uttar Pradesh.

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Wildlife in Uttar Pradesh : Dudhwa National Park - 5

Guys, covering an area of about 500 sq. kms., Dudhwa National Park, along the Indo-Nepal border in Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh, is best known for the Barasingha or Swamp Deer. Among the big cats, tigers abound at Dudhwa. There are also a few leopards. The other animals found in large numbers, are the Indian one-horned rhinoceros and the wild elephant. Other animals found in Dudhwa are jungle cats, leopard cats, fishing cats, jackals, civets, sloth bears, sambar, otters, crocodiles and chital.

Among reptiles, pythons and monitor lizards are fairly common. Dudhwa is also a bird-watcher's paradise. Dudhwa, perhaps, houses the greatest number of owls and storks. The great Indian horned owl, the forest eagle owl, the brown wood owl and the jungle owlet are found in plenty. The storks, which abound here, are the black-necked stork, white-necked stork, black stork, painted stork, white stork, open-billed stork and adjutant stork.

In a bid to save the Indian one-horned rhinoceros, seven rhinos from Assam and Nepal were introduced into Dudhwa in 1984-85. Currently, 13 rhinos can be spotted in Dudhwa.

When to visit:

The best time to visit is November to May

Where to stay:

Dudhwa Forest Home, Log Huts, Dormitory, tent, rest houses at Soniapur, Sathiana

How to get there:

The nearest town in Palia (10 kms). From Delhi (430 kms). By rail upto Shahajahanpur and onwards by road. From Lucknow (250 kms). By rail upto Mailani, and onwards by road.

Contact :

Field Director, Project Tiger, Dudhwa National Park, Lakhimpur-Kheri, Uttar Pradesh. Tel No. : 262701

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Indian Art and Craft : Carpets from Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan - 16

Pile carpets were probably introduced into India from Iran. During the Mughal period, this craft flourished in Agra, Delhi and Lahore. Kashmir developed its carpet industry in the 15th century AD. Here carpet making closely follows the shawl-weaving tradition with designs based on Persian and Central Asian styles.

The important centers of carpet weaving in India are Srinagar in Kashmir, Jaipur in Rajsthan, Amritsar in Punjab, Mirzapur and Agra in Uttar Pradesh and Warangal and Elluru in Andhra Pradesh. Amritsar, a late entrant, developed its industry only at the start of the 19th century. It has a tradition of weaving fine quality rugs with geometrical patterns called Mouri. Jaipur Mirzapur and Bhadoi produce quality carpets, which vary form 80 knots to 120 knots per square inch. In Andhra Pradesh, geometrical patterned carpets of quality of around 30 to 60 knots per inch are mostly meant for export.

A variety of floor coverings are used in Indian homes. The durree is a cotton-woven thick fabric meant for spreading on the floor. Weaving of a durree is a common sight in most Indian villages. The flat woven rugs can be found all over India. Some areas only produce cotton durries, but those in Jodhpur, Rajasthan include cotton, wool and silk. The geometric designs are produced by tapestry technique which is a slow process using separate bobbins or butterflies for each colour across the width interlocking with the adjacent coloured yarn. The weavers sit cross-legged on the side of the loom, sometimes with a weaver on each side. In the states of Punjab and Haryana, the Jat women weave durrees for their personal use. Jaisalmer and Barmer in Rajasthan produce woollen durries. Uttar Pradesh is an important commercial weaving centre for durrees. Other centres for weaving include Navalgund in Karnataka and Salem in Tamil Nadu. The Navalgund durrees are also known as Jamkhans. Richly patterned in rust, yellow, green and black, they depict stylized parrots and peacocks. The Salem durrees, woven in silk and cotton are prepared in brilliant colours with a central pattern of lotus and borders with flowing floral patterns. Warangal near Hyderabad is known for the Bandha or Ikat durrees. Kashmir is known for Namdas, Hook rugs and Gabbas. Namdas are made of felted wool and cotton and are embroidered with woollen chain stitches. The hook rug is made with a hook called ahri. A thick jute cloth is used and then it is embroiedered worked with a hook called ahri. A thick jute cloth is used and then it is embroidered fully so that the base material is not visible. The Gabba is a kind of an applique work done on worn out woollen blankets.

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