Museum in Maharashtra

With varied types of antique items and art works there are about 36 Museums in Maharashtra. All these Museums of Maharashtra are unique in their own way. Maharashtra has the rare privilege of celebrating the centenary of two Museums. The most famous Museums of Maharashtra are Bombay Natural History Society, Bharata Itihasa Samshodhak Mandal, Heras Institute of Indian History & Culture, Jehangir Nicholson Museum of Modern Art, Nehru Science Center, Prince of Wales Museum, Raja Dinker Kelkar Museum.

The dome shaped Prince of Wales Museum is named after Prince George who visited India in 1905 and laid the foundation stone of the building. The 19th century Pahari School of Painting, Mughal paintings, Nepalese & Tibetan Art, Deccan School of Paintings are worthy of praise. But the unique collection of this Museum is the illustrated palm leaf manuscripts of the 11th / 12th centuries.

Located at Kala Ghoda, the Jehangir Nicholson Museum of Modern Art has been constructed in 1952. The Art Gallery has four halls for exhibition of Arts and is managed by Bombay Art Society.

Heras Institute of Indian History & Culture is named after Fr. Henry Heras. It has valuable and magnificent pieces of art from India and West Asia. There are statues and images of various religious groups.

Raja Dinker Kelkar Museum of Pune has a huge collection of about 20,000 paintings, handicrafts, armor-suits, musical instruments, and many other objects collected from all over the world. Articles of Mughal and Maratha Rulers are on display in this Museum.

The first phase of the museum spans over 7 acres of area with almost 80 main scenes and around 300 statues. Several subtle village lifestyles are taken into consideration. There is a unique combination of expression, accuracy and liveliness in the whole village. Each sculpture has a multi dimensional effect and lifestyle theme. Swamiji very keenly arranged each and every scene to make a proper visual story. Barter economy, interpersonal healthy happy relationship among villagers is reflected. The Museum projects the entire village as a single family, and as single family members in a joint family.

Prince Of Wales Museum