Salarjung Museum

SALARJUNG MUSEUM is situated on Musi River in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is the third largest museum in India.

 Mir Yusuf Ali Khan was the prime minister of Nizam of Hyderabad. He was also known as Salar Jung 3. He was the only man who collected all the antiques present in this museum. He spent a lot of money for buying the antiques. Some of the items present in this museum were taken from his father and grand father. The collection is from all over the world. It was opened on 1952, Dec 16^th. It has more than 50,000 books, 43000 art objects and 9000 manuscripts. The collections are Indian art, children art, European art, far eastern art, Middle Eastern art. Indian art consists of painted textiles, wood carvings, stone sculptures, jade carvings, textiles, manuscript, metal ware etc. European art contains water color and oil paintings. Far eastern art contains paintings, bronze, enamel etc. Museum is in semicircular shape and it contains two floors. In the first floor it contains 20 rooms and in the second floor it contain 18 rooms. Museum contains white marble statue of veiled Rebecca, crafted knives of Mughal emperor Jahangir and Queen Noor Jehan.  Museum contains 100 year old clock. A complete room is for the children’s who are interested in toys, puppets etc. In 1961 it is declared as the “institution of national importance”. You can also get the books in different languages and you can find various items like paintings, furniture’s, snuff boxes, archer’s rings, ornaments etc. The best attraction is present in clock room.  In the clock room it contains more than 300 clocks. The visiting hours are from 10 am to 5 pm. It is closed only on Fridays. You can go to the museum by bus or other transportation.