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Egmore National Museum

Chennai, 🇮🇳 India

The Government Museum, Chennai, or the Madras Museum, is a museum of human history and culture located in the Government Museum Complex in… Read more…

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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, India. Started in 1851, 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 among the largest collection of Roman antiquities outside Europe, peculiarly in the numismatics field, and is very likely the most richly endowed museum in Asia concerning this civilisation. 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.

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Address Madras, India
Coordinates 13°4'16.607" N, 80°15'24.379" E
Riverside Hotel
Taxi · 8 min
Egmore National Museum
2h
Walk · 6 min
Corner Café
45 min
Walk · 18 min
Riverside Hotel

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