Victoria Memorial - Kolkata, India
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N 22° 32.726 E 088° 20.564
45Q E 638070 N 2493821
This museum is hosted in Victoria Memorial, a spectacular building constructed as a homage to Queen Victoria and inaugurated in 1921.
Waymark Code: WM18201
Location: India
Date Posted: 05/13/2023
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Victoria Memorial is perhaps the main sightseing spot in Kolkata. A visitor can just stroll around the gardens and for that a smaller fee applies. The museum itself is in the spectacular building, kept in pristine condition. Overall visiting the place is a reccomended experience.
From Wikipedia (reading of the full article advised):
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"The Victoria Memorial has 25 galleries.
These include the royal gallery, the national leader's gallery, the portrait gallery, central hall, the sculpture gallery, the arms and armory gallery, and the newer, Kolkata gallery. The Victoria Memorial has the largest single collection of the works of Thomas Daniell (1749–1840) and his nephew, William Daniell (1769–1837). It also has a collection of rare and antiquarian books such as the illustrated works of William Shakespeare, the Arabian Nights and the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam as well as books about kathak dance and thumri music by Nawab Wajid Ali Shah. However, the galleries and their exhibitions, the programmatic elements of the memorial do not compete with the purely architectural spaces or voids.
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