Egmore Museum, Chennai

Description

Hand drawn pen and ink illustration of the Egmore Government Museum in Chennai  | Tamil Nadu (India)

The Government Museum, Chennai, or the Madras Museum, is a museum of human history and culture located in the Government Museum Complex in the neighbourhood of Egmore in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

History & Architecture

It was built in 1851, and it is the second oldest museum in India after the Indian Museum in Kolkata. It is particularly rich in archaeological and numismatic collections. It has the largest collection of Roman antiquities outside Europe. Among them, the colossal Museum Theatre is one of the most impressive.

The National Art Gallery is also present in the museum premises. Built in Indo-Saracenic style, it houses rare European and Asian painting of renowned artists, including that of Raja Ravi Varma. It had 0.6 million visitors in 2018. It has the richest collections of bronze idols, 500 of them dating to 1000 BCE, in Asia.

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Museum,_Chennai

https://www.govtmuseumchennai.org/

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