National Museum, New Delhi
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The National Museum in New Delhi is one of India’s largest and most important museums, housing extensive collections that span 5,000 years of the subcontinent’s art, history, and cultural heritage.
Statements (66)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art museum
ⓘ
history museum ⓘ national museum ⓘ |
| cityDistrict | Central Delhi ⓘ |
| collectionPeriodSpan | over 5000 years ⓘ |
| collectionSize | over 200000 objects ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| hasCollection |
Ajanta cave painting replicas
ⓘ
Buddhist art ⓘ Buddhist relics ⓘ Central Asian antiquities ⓘ Nataraja sculptures ⓘ
surface form:
Chola bronzes
Company school paintings ⓘ Gandhara civilization ⓘ
surface form:
Gandhara art
Harappan Civilization artifacts ⓘ Indian miniature paintings ⓘ Indus Valley Civilization artifacts ⓘ Jewellery ⓘ Mathura school sculptures ⓘ Mughal paintings ⓘ Nataraja sculptures ⓘ Pahari paintings ⓘ Rajasthani paintings ⓘ Tanjore ⓘ
surface form:
Tanjore paintings
archaeological artifacts ⓘ arms and armour ⓘ bronze sculptures ⓘ coins of ancient India ⓘ costumes ⓘ decorative arts ⓘ epigraphs ⓘ folk art ⓘ ivory artifacts ⓘ manuscripts ⓘ medieval Indian coins ⓘ metalware ⓘ modern Indian coins ⓘ musical instruments ⓘ numismatics ⓘ pre-Columbian art ⓘ ritual objects ⓘ sculptures ⓘ stone sculptures ⓘ terracotta objects ⓘ textiles ⓘ tribal art ⓘ wooden artifacts ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
education
ⓘ
preservation of cultural heritage ⓘ public exhibition ⓘ research ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://nationalmuseumindia.gov.in ⓘ |
| inception | 1949 ⓘ |
| languageOfInstitution |
English
ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Delhi
ⓘ
India ⓘ New Delhi, India ⓘ
surface form:
New Delhi
|
| locatedOnStreet | Janpath ⓘ |
| near | India Gate ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Ministry of Culture, Government of India ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Government of India ⓘ |
| significantFor |
Indian art history
ⓘ
archaeological research ⓘ cultural heritage of India ⓘ museum studies in India ⓘ |
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subject surface form:
New Delhi