national museum, janpath, new delhi

NATIONAL MUSEUMJanpath, Rajpath Area, Central Secretariat, New Delhi, Delhi 110011

By: Kushal (MBADevvrat (NPGD-33)

• National Museum in New Delhi is one of the largest museum in INDIA.

• Pre-historic era to modern works of art.• On August 15, 1949, the National Museum,

New Delhi, was inaugurated in the Rashtrapati Bhawan by Shri R.C. Rajagopalachari

• The National Museum is under the administrative control of the Ministry of Culture.

• The National Museum Situated on the corner of Janpath and Maulana Azad road.

• The National Museum has 2,06,000 works of exquisite of art.

• It covers around 5000 year of culture and heritage of both, Indian and Foreign Origin

• National Museum having a wide range of masterpieces of sculptural art in such medium like: Stone, Bronze, silver, gold, iron, bones

• It covers 3rd century BC to 19th century AD, Longest time in world History

Galleries to Visit

• Maurya-shunga-Satavahana Gallery (3rd century BC to 1st-2nd century AD)

• Kushana Gallery• Gupta Art Gallery• Early Medieval Gallery• Late Medieval Gallery• Buddhist Gallery

Map of Ground Floor

HARAPPAN CIVILIZATION

•Gallery Has large number of artifacts from the sites of Harappan Civilization.•The Collection Includes Pottery, Tablets weights and measures, Seals, utensils, Jewelry figurine, terracotta, toys etc.•Some metal or copper tools like axes, chisels, knives etc.•About 3800 objective has been displayed in the Harappan civilization gallery.

MOHENJO-DARO

• Built around 2600 BCE• one of the world's earliest major urban settlements.•

Manuscripts

• Indus script • Brahmi script• Bhattiprolu script, Kadamba script• Sanskrit

BUDDHIST ART GALLERY

• Buddhist art illustrated by 84 exhibits in stone, Bronze, wodden, gold, teracotta etc.• Buddha Pada Foot prints and buddha,s life scenes and some other masterpiece.

Buddhist art

Map of First Floor

Decorative Art

• India is the origin of chess, ludo, snake – ladder, gyan chopad etc games.• Gyan chopad shows the path of peace after reaching success.• ladder shows the kindness and humbleness of human

Elephant tusk art works

Buddha live carved on tusk

Coins

Casting Method of Coins

Map of Second Floor

Costumes and Textiles

Musical Instruments

Wood Carving

Arms and Armors

Thank You

And

Do visit to National Museum