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Museums in Tamilnadu
Government State Museum :
This museum in Chennai is best known for two important
collections: sculptures from Amarvati and its famed Bronze
Gallery. The Amaravati collection has panels, pillars, carved
railings and Buddha statues of Milky white marble from a
Buddhist stupa excavated at Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh. There are
bronze sculptures from the later Pallava, Chola, Hoysala and
Chalukya periods.
Fort St. George Museum : The museum displays collection of
portraits and paintings of former governors of Chennai as well
as of English royalty. Among the other objects on view are
weapons, coins, porcelain and the communion vessels of the
church.
Thanjavur Art Gallery : The former palace of the Nayaks of
Thanjavur once viceroys of the Vijaynagara rules and later
hereditary rulers, is a wonderful and extravagant piece of
architecture, built in 1600. The huge enclosed compound
encompasses a complex which includes the Art Gallery, the
Saraswati Library and the Sangeetha Sabha or Music Hall.A
gigantic tower, the arsenal, decorated with bands of arches form
the external facade. One enters into a hall which is the
sculpture gallery where examples of south Indian stone
sculptures dating from the Pallava to Nayak period are
exhibited.
Government Museum : The various sections in the museum deal
with archaeology, anthropology, zoology, numismatology, botany
and geology. The museum has a fine collection of bronzes which
are not allowed to be photographed
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