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.

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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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New Delhi, India hasLandmark National Museum, New Delhi
subject surface form: New Delhi