Albert Hall Museum

Albert Hall Museum is positioned in Jaipur Rajasthan, India. It is the oldest museum of the country and features as the State museum of Rajasthan. The building is located in Ram Niwas garden outdoor the city wall contrary New gate and is a great instance of Indo-Saracenic structure. It is likewise referred to as the Government Central Museum. The building changed into designed through Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob, assisted via Mir Tujumool Hoosein, and become opened as public museum in 1887.

 

Maharaja Ram Singh to start with desired this constructing to be a town corridor, however his successor, Madho Singh II, determined it need to be a museum for the art of Jaipur and protected as a part of the brand new Ram Nivas Garden. It is called after King Edward VII, in the course of whose go to to the town as the Prince of Wales, its foundation stone became laid on 6 February 1876. The museum has a rich collection of artifacts together with paintings, rings, carpets, ivory, stone, metal sculptures, and works in crystal. The series consists of coins from the Gupta, Kushan, Delhi Sultanate, Mughal and British periods.