Salarjung Museum Hyderabad

         The Salarjung museum is AN art museum set at Darushifa, on the southern bank of the Musi River in the town of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. it’s one of the 3 National Museums of India. it’s a group of sculptures, paintings, carvings, textiles, manuscripts, ceramics, bimetal artefacts, carpets, clocks, and piece of furniture from Japan, China, Burma, Nepal, India, Persia, Egypt, Europe, and North America. The museum’s collection was sourced from the property of the Salar Jung family.

Salarjung museum History:

            This museum is that the third largest museum in India housing the most important one-person collections of antiques within the world. It’s acknowledged throughout India for its prized collections happiness to totally different civilizations qualitative analysis back to the first century. nabob Mir Yusuf Ali Khan Salar Carl Gustav Jung III (1889–1949), former Prime Minister of the seventh Nizam of Hyderabad, spent a considerable quantity of his financial gain over thirty 5 years to form this invaluable collection, his life’s passion.
                    The collections left behind in his ancestral palace, ‘Diwan Deodi’ were once exhibited there as a private repository that was inaugurated by Nehru in 1951. Old timers believe that this assortment constitutes solely 1/2 the original art wealth collected by Salar Jung III. His staff siphoned off a part of it, since Salar Jung was a bachelor and depended upon his employees to stay a vigil.
Some a lot of art items were lost or stolen throughout the shifting of the museum from Dewan Devdi to this web site. Later in 1968, the museum shifted to its gift location at Afzalgunj and is run by a Board of Trustees with the Governor of Andhra Pradesh as ex-officio chairman below the Salarjung museum Act of 1961.

Collections in this museum:

 The Indian historical collections includes,
•             The paintings of legendary Raja Ravi Varma
•             Aurangzeb’s blade.
•             Jade crafted daggers of, Emperor Jehangir, Noorjahan and sovereign Jehan.
•             A wardrobe of tipu sultan and
•             A lunch box made from gold and diamond
The furniture collection happiness from the time of Louis[disambiguation needed] 14th-17th and Napoleon. Salar Jung III collected regarding 43,000 artifacts and 50,000 books and manuscripts out of that solely few are displayed in today’s museum.