World famous renowned Salar Jung museum is located in the banks of river Moosi in Hyderabad. It is very close to Historical monument Charminar and Mecca Masjid.
Safar Jung III, Nawab Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, collected major portion of articles of this museum for a period of 40 years. Later his successors donated the entire collections to Government of India.
Wonderful collections of art objects and antiques collected not only from India and from western countries like England, Ireland, France, Belgium and Itlay.
This museum comprises 39 galleries spread over in three buildings named as Central Block, Easter Block and Western block. The central block is in ground floor having 27 galleries (ground floor 15, first floor 12)
Salarjung Museum divided into three blocks as Indian gallery, Eastern block and western block and each block shows the following articles.
Indian Gallery – Main building – Ground floor:
Room No.2 – Founders gallery
Room No.3 – Indian bronzes and painted textiles.
Room No.5 - Indian sculpture gallery
Room No.6- Minor arts of South India
Room No.7 – Indian textiles veranda
IVORY COACH
Room No.9 – Children gallery
Room No.10 – Children gallery
Room No.11 – Ivory carvings
Room No.12 – veiled Rebacca
Room No.14 – Arms and Armour gallery
Indian Gallery – Main building – 1st floor
Room No.18 – Toys and dolls gallery
Room No.19 – Flora and fauna gallery
Room No.24 – Indian silver gallery
Room No.25 – Carpet gallery
Room No.28 – Jade gallery
Room No.29 – Bidri gallery
Room No.30 – Kashmir gallery
Eastern block – 1st floor
Room No.1 – Chinese gallery
Room No.2 – Eastern Poracelain gallery
Room No.3- Japanese gallery
Room No.4 – Eastern Saturday gallery
Western block 1st floor
Room No. 1- European painting gallery
Room No.2 – European glass gallery
Room No.3 – French gallery
Room No.4 – European clock gallery
Room No.5 – European forcelain gallery
Western block – ground floor
Room No. – European bronze sculpture gallery
Room No. 7 – European marble sculpture gallery
Entrance fee will be collected
Museum working hours:
10.00 am to 05-00 pm. Every Friday is holiday. Apart from Friday the museum will be closed on Salar Jung death Anniversary day, Holy, Ramzan, Bakrid, Vijaya Dasami, Muhuram, Deepavali, Milad Un Nabi
How to go
Autos and RTC busses, taxies will run to this museum from all parts of Hyderabad. Afzalganj bus stop is the nearest place to this museum.
For full details and to see some images please visit official website:
http://salarjungmuseum.in/html/galleryvideos.html#