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About
The collection
Location
Fabulous collections
| | About | | The Baroda museum and art gallery and the Maharaja Fateh Sigh Museum have excellent artwork collections by Indian artists and European Masters of Mughal miniatures and valuable palm leaf manuscripts of Buddhist and Jain origin.
This museum is located in Sayaji Bagh, a garden that is popular with the inhabitants of Baroda, who picnic and stroll there.
| | | The collection | | Founded by the Gaekwad in 1894, it has impressive collections of art and
archeology, natural history, geology and ethnology. The adjoining art gallery has great collection of European old masters, Veronese, Giordano, Zurbaran, some Flemish and Dutch school paintings, and Turner and Constable. It has an excellent collection of art objects and paintings, including the famous Akota bronzes dating from 5th Century A.D. Other treasures include a full-fledged gallery of Tibetan Art.
The collection in the museum belongs largely to the former ruler of the state, Maharaja Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III. During British rule it was the fashion for Indian rulers to take a keen interest in European art. On their travels and holidays abroad they collected paintings and sculpture as well as acquired many Western habits and customs. The outcome of these royal pastimes was a random collection of strange and peculiar) art objects from all parts of the world.
| | | Location | | This museum is located in Sayaji Bagh | | | Fabulous collections | | This museum was opened in 1921 and additions and changes have been made periodically, but the 'cluttered look' continues to dominate the museum galleries.
On the ground floor are rooms with the European Art collection, where Greek and Roman sculpture rub shoulders with paintings of a variety of European schools. There are galleries with displays of Asian Art from Burma, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, China and Japan - bronzes, ivory and pottery, and a painted gilt wooden statue of the Bodhisattva. There are samples of art objects, especially manuscripts from Persia, Turkey and Japan.
The Indian Art Section has one part devoted to prehistoric artifacts. One of the prized possessions of this museum is a bronze roman jar of the second century. The Indian Painting Gallery has a noteworthy sample of Indian painted manuscripts from Rajasthan and the Hill schools, portraits of various maharajas, a Ragamala series, illustrations to the Bhagavad Purana and others.
The museum also has special galleries for its natural history, geological and zoological collections.
The museum also houses famous 11th century Shiva Natraj, exquisite 9th century Shiva Natraj, exquisite 9th century ivory box from Nagina, U.P., Ganj -e- Shahid inscription of Qazzaq Khan, Mughal Governor of Dabhoi (1635 AD) 32 miniatures from Razm Nama, a Persian version of the Hindu epic Mahabharata commissioned by Emperor Akbar, 109 miniature paintings donated by Jagmohandas Modi, etc.
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