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Government Museum, Chennai

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Madras museum theatre in October 2007
Madras museum theatre in October 2007

The Government Museum, Chennai, or the Madras Museum, is a museum of human history and culture located in the Government Museum Complex in the neighbourhood of Egmore in Chennai, India. Started in 1851, it is the second oldest museum in India after the Indian Museum in Kolkata. It is particularly rich in archaeological and numismatic collections. It has the largest collection of Roman antiquities outside Europe. Among them, the colossal Museum Theatre is one of the most impressive. The National Art Gallery is also present in the museum premises. Built in Indo-Saracenic style, it houses rare European and Asian painting of renowned artists, including that of Raja Ravi Varma. It had 0.6 million visitors in 2018. It has the richest collections of bronze idols, 500 of them dating to 1000 BCE, in Asia.

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Government Museum, Chennai
Government Museum, Chennai Ward 61 (Zone 5 Royapuram)

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600001 Chennai, Ward 61 (Zone 5 Royapuram)
Tamil Nadu, India
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Madras museum theatre in October 2007
Madras museum theatre in October 2007
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