Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad, Telangana State | Veiled Rebecca Posing | Hyderabad Tour Episode 01
#salarjungmuseum #hyderabad #deccan MY THOUGHTS, EXPERIENCE AND OVERVIEW: 19th November 2022 This episode is a part of our week-long Hyderabad tour undertaken earlier in January of this year. Divided into episodes for easy handling, this first episode constitutes our visit to the famous Salar Jung Museum. What rare art, relics, artefacts, manuscripts etc., this nobleman could gather in his lifetime is enormous. We (family group) almost spent 3.5 hours inside this magnificent sprawling museum and yet could not cover the entire displays of art. The effort of this great gatherer, Sri. Salar Jung III (Mir Yousuf Ali Khan) deserves applauds, and the team working on its preservation, maintenance and restoration is phenomenal. My gratitude to them is reflected through this vlog. Thanks for reading and watching. LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_You... https://salarjungmuseum.in/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salar_J... Salar Jung Museum Salar Jung Road, Near Minar Function Hall Darulshifa, Hyderabad, Telangana 500002 Phone: +91 40 24576443, 24523211, 13 Fax: +91 40 24572558 Email: [email protected] CUT AND PASTE JOB: The Salar Jung Museum is an art museum located at Dar-ul-Shifa on the southern bank of Musi River in the city of Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It is one of the notable National Museums of India. Originally a private art collection of the Salar Jung family, it was endowed to the nation after the death of Salar Jung III. It was inaugurated on 16th December 1951. It has a collection of sculptures, paintings, carvings, textiles, manuscripts, ceramics, metallic artifacts, carpets, clocks, and furniture from Japan, China, Burma, Nepal, India, Persia, Egypt, Europe and North America. It is one of the largest museums in the world. HISTORY: A nobleman of the Salar Jung family of Hyderabad, Nawab Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, Salar Jung III (1889–1949) served as prime minister of Hyderabad during the Nizam's rule. He spent a substantial amount of his income, over a period of thirty-five years, collecting artefacts from all across the world. After the Nawab died in 1949, the collections were left behind in his ancestral palace Diwan Deodi. The collection was formerly exhibited there as a private museum, named Salar Jung Museum, which was inaugurated by Jawaharlal Nehru on 16 December 1951. Old timers believe that the present collection constitutes only half of the original art wealth collected by the Nawab. His employees siphoned off part of it, since the Nawab depended upon his staff to keep a vigil. (Citation needed) In 1968, the museum shifted to its present location at Dar-ul-Shifa, and is administered by a board of trustees with the governor of Telangana as ex officio chairperson under the Salar Jung Museum Act of 1961. Some more art pieces were lost or stolen during the shifting of the museum from Dewan Devdi (Deodi) to the present site. In 2003, the museum signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Mission for Manuscripts, and was declared a manuscript conservation center. In 2006, a fire broke out in an auditorium in the museum premises. However, it was quickly extinguished and none of the artifacts were damaged. After the incident, fire safety facilities were upgraded. COLLECTIONS: INDIAN: The "Founder's Gallery" houses portraits of Salar Jung III, as well as other members of the Salar Jung family. The Indian block includes jade-crafted daggers of Jahangir, Nur Jahan and Shah Jahan; and weapons belonging to Aurangzeb, Tipu Sultan, Muhammad Shah, Bahadur Shah and Abul Hasan Qutb Shah. Indian miniature paintings belonging to the Mughal, Rajasthani, Thanjavur and Deccan schools are displayed. Indian sculptures from the Gandhara and Chola periods are also displayed. Anantashayana Vishnu in granite, from the Chola period, 11th century CE. Lakshmi Narayan in granite, from the Vijayanagara period, 15th century CE. The museum also has a collection of modern Indian artworks from the Bengal School. Works by Raja Ravi Varma, Abdur Rahman Chughtai, M.F. Hussain, K.K. Hebbar, Rabindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore and Nandalal Bose are displayed. WESTERN: In 1876 on a trip to France the unique "double sculpture" Mephistopheles and Margaretta sculpture was acquired by Salar Jung I. He also traveled to Rome, where he purchased a marble statue called Veiled Rebecca. The Salar Jung family had a history of collecting art, and eventually the collection of art from Salar Jung I, II and III all ended up in the Salar Jung Museum. European art from the British, French and Italian schools is displayed. Among the notable artists whose works are displayed are Canaletto, William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Francesco Hayez. The furniture collection includes pieces from the time of King Louis XIV and Napoleon. Salar Jung III collected about 43,000 artifacts and 50,000 books and manuscripts out of which only few are displayed in today's museum. CLOCKS:
