Vadodara Museum and Picture Gallery - 61

An amazing collection of art and archaeology, natural history, geology and ethnology. The museum also has a collection of Indian miniatures, European oil-paintings and objects from Japan, Tibet and Nepal.

This Art Museum in Vadodara (Baroda), Gujarāt state, India. It was established by the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda in 1894 as a example assemblage of an outstanding achievement. The construction was manufactured between 1908 and 1914, and the gallery formally opened in 1921. The museum exhibits European paintings, especially English portraits by George Romney and examples from the schools of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Sir Peter Lely, and also Indian miniatures, sculpture, folk art, scientific displays, and descriptive anthropology.

Baroda (Varodara) Museum and Picture Gallery is well known for its plentiful and good-formed accumulations. The collection covers the subjects of art and archeology, natural history, geology, and ethnology. It displays the artefacts and art objects collected form different places of India, and from distant regions of the world including Egypt, Japan, the Netherlands, and Tibet. The art gallery houses a fine collection of European old masters, Veronese, Giordano, Zurbaran, some Flemish and Dutch school paintings. The museum also exhibits the famous Akota bronzes dating from the 5th Century.

This museum furnishes a non-formal education in scientific and cultural areas. It conducts periodical cultural and educational exhibitions on various topics, offering illustrated teaching on museum subjects. For school children and the visiting public, they show educational films. Facilities for the drawing and study of the exhibits at close quarters are provided. It is one of must visit place so do not miss the opportunity if you are on the tour of Vadodara.

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