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The museums of Chennai

 
 

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The museums of Chennai

The museums of Chennai The Museum of Chennai The Museum of Chennai covers an area of more than 17 acres; it is composed of six independent buildings devoted to various disciplines ranging from botany to art to anthropology. © Wilfried Louvet

At Chennai, the Government Museum in the Egmore neighbourhood contains collections of ethnological, archeological and bronze objects, and miniature paintings set in four buildings. The National Art Gallery houses miniatures, glass paintings and bronze statues of divinities. In the north-west of the city, dive into the relics of the colonial British India and admire the weapons, military costumes and manuscripts collected at the Fort Museum.

Arts and culture

Other reasons to go

  1.   Landscapes

  2.   Coasts

  3.   Towns

  4.   Monuments

  5.   Parks and reserves

  6.   Climatic health stations