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Tamil Nadu is a land with history
and culture. Innumerable historical sites, cities and monuments across the
length and breadth of the state are a testimony to this rich cultural past.
Tamil Nadu's museums offer visitors a rare opportunity to view culture under a
single roof.
Chennai
Government State Museum
This museum in Chennai is best known for two important collections: sculptures
from Amarvati and its famed Bronze Gallery. The Amaravati collection has panels,
pillars, carved railings and Buddha statues of Milky white marble from a
Buddhist stupa excavated at Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh. There are bronze
sculptures from the later Pallava, Chola, Hoysala and Chalukya periods.
Fort St. George Museum
The museum displays collection of portraits and paintings of former governors of
Chennai as well as of English royalty. Among the other objects on view are
weapons, coins, porcelain and the communion vessels of the church.
Thanjavur
Thanjavur Art Gallery
The former palace of the Nayaks of Thanjavur once viceroys of the Vijaynagara
rules and later hereditary rulers, is a wonderful and extravagant piece of
architecture, built in 1600. The huge enclosed compound encompasses a complex
which includes the Art Gallery, the Saraswati Library and the Sangeetha Sabha or
Music Hall.
A gigantic tower, the arsenal, decorated with bands of arches form the external
facade. One enters into a hall which is the sculpture gallery where examples of
south Indian stone sculptures dating from the Pallava to Nayak period are
exhibited.
Madurai
Government Museum
The various sections in the museum deal with archaeology, anthropology, zoology,
numismatology, botany and geology. The museum has a fine collection of bronzes
which are not allowed to be photographed.
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