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Museums of Ajmer, Rajasthan
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Rajasthan Museums
- GOVERNMENT MUSEUM
Situated in the heart of the old city and close to the railway
station the museum is housed in the beautiful fort and palace built
by the Mughal Emperor Akbar in 1570. It was here that the British
envoy Sir Thomas Roe met Emperor jahangir in 1616. What is today commonly
known as Magazine is the palace quarters where the emperors lived.
After British occupation in 1818 and during the first war of Independence
in 1857 it was used as the Rajputana Arsenal by the British which
gave the name magazine.
- ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
Located in the Dil-e-Aaram Gardens, of Amer, the ancient capital
of Jaipur, and established in 1949. Prior to this, the excavated material
from Rairh, Bairat, Sambhar, Nagar etc. and the sculptures and epigraphs
collected from various sites in the erstwhile jaipur State were housed
at Vidyadhar Gardens in Purana Chat. In July 1949 the entire collection
was transferred to Dil-e-Aaram Garden, a part of the old palace at
Amer. An Art Gallery was inaugurated in 1992 in this complex. The
museum is divided into three sections.
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