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Activities In India  Museums
In India
Museums In Delhi
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Shankar's International Doll Museum |
Set up by the renowned political cartoonist, K. Shankar Pillai (1902–1989),
Shankar’s International Dolls Museum has one of the largest collection of
costume dolls anywhere in the world.
Indian dolls made at the workshop are exchanged for gifts received from
abroad as well as sold to collectors and museums in India and abroad.
The Museum’s collection of costume dolls was inspired by a gift of a
single doll, which Shankar received from the Hungarian Ambassador in the
early fifties, to be given away as a prize in the Shankar’s International
Children’s Competition.
Address : Shankar's International Dolls Museum
Nehru House, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg,
New Delhi
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| National Museum Of Natural History |
A prehistoric animal greets the visitor to the National Museum of natural
History of natural history preparing him for the collection of botanical ,
zoological and geological objects on view within.
Address : National Museum of Natural History
Barakhamba Road,
New Delhi
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| Crafts Museum |
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crafts Museum complex is a charming oasis of mud huts with painted walls and
thatched roofs, courtyards, terracotta houses recreating village life.
Within the museum itself are examples of traditional Indian crafts,wooden
carvings and images and metalware.
Address : Crafts Museum
Bhairon Road, Pragati Maidan
New Delhi
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| Archaeological Museum |
Situated in the historic Red fort, the museum
exhibits objects of the mughal period such as manuscripts and firmans , that
demonstrate the fine art of calligraphy, paintings, textiles and costumes.
One section concentrates on relics of the 1857 war(First War of
Independence)like maps and weapons.
Address : Archaeological Museum
Red Fort,
New Delhi
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| Rail Museum |
 This museum depicts 130 years of evolution and
development of the Indian railways.On view are vintage locomotive engines,
especially the fairy Queen, the Patiala Monorail Tramway (1907-27) which is
internationally unique, the Princes of Wales saloon(1875), the luxurious
Maharaja of Mysore;s saloon , the Viceregal dining car.
Address : National Rail Museum
Chanakyapuri,
New Delhi
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| National Museum |
 The National Museum is some of India's most
prestigious institutions. The Indus Valley displays many antiquities
excavated from Mohenjodaro and Harappa, like terracotta toys, images and
pots, jewellery, seals, bronze and copper implements and sculptures. The
most outstanding object here is teh lyrical bronze Dancing Girl.
There are a number of rare manuscripts and miniature
paintings,textiles,coins and tribal art, but the museum's most significant
gallery is the one of Central Asian exhibits.
Address : National Museum
Janpath, New delhi
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Museums In India
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