28-485: Government Museum may refer to: Government Museum, Chennai Government Museum, Karur Government Museum (Bangalore) Government Museum, Mathura Government Museum, Tiruchirappalli Cuddalore Government Museum Government Museum, Pudukkottai Government Museum (Shivappa Nayaka Palace), Shimoga Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
56-647: A 1909 map of Madras city. Sterling Road consists of trees in both the sides, which is very rare to see in the heart of a metropolitan city. Pizza Hut, Pizza Corner, Mexicano Griller, Maplai Restaurant, Coffee day Lounge, Goddy's, World of Titan, KFC, Reebok, NIKE, ADIDAS, Marrybrown, Just Born, Chicking, BASICS etc. all have opened their shops in Nungambakkam. Traffic is very high in Nungambakkam during peak hours (8am-11am and 6pm-9.30pm) due to various road junctions which connects some important places in Chennai city. There are
84-706: A 20-minute-long film and will play five shows a day. The project is expected to be completed by April 2013. There are also plans to upgrade the 3D theatre to a 5D one. In 2018, the Department of Museums started evaluating bids for renovating the museum as part of an Asian Development Bank–funded scheme. Nungambakkam Nungambakkam is a locality in downtown Chennai , India. The neighborhood abounds with multi-national commercial establishments, important government offices, foreign consulates, educational institutions, shopping malls, sporting facilities, tourist spots, star hotels, restaurants, and cultural centers. Nungambakkam
112-542: A commodious stage and the actors' dressing rooms adjoin this stage. During the British era, the theatre was mainly used for staging English plays preferred by the British elite of the city. Now, the museum has been using the theatre for its own cultural and academic programs such as art workshops, lectures and conferences. It also rents the hall for various cultural performances, mainly dramas. The hall has witnessed several plays including those of Shakespeare . Since August 2004,
140-596: A gift of a collection of 1,100 geological specimens by the Madras Literary Society to the Government in 1851. The museum, the first government-sponsored one in the country, opened the same year on the first floor of the college of Fort St. George , adjacent to the Literary Society in Nungambakkam, with an exhibit of nearly 20,000 freely gifted specimens ranging from rocks to books. These gifts were in response to
168-469: A huge reading room with a wooden ceiling between two curved rows of stained glass, supported by ornate pillars and arches embellished with sculpted acanthus leaves. It was supplemented with teakwood furniture, marbled floor, and decorative windows. All of these were restored in 2004–2007. The building now houses the Old Collection (pre-1930), which is used for reference purpose only. Both the museum and
196-638: A lot of ATMs and branches of various international banks such as Standard Chartered, Deutsche Bank etc.. The Women's Christian College was established in 1915. The Good Shepherd Convent later known as the Good Shephered Higher Secondary Matriculation School was established in 1925. Loyola College was established as an arts college in 1925. Valluvar Kottam , a monument named after the Tamil poet Valluvar and inaugurated in April 1976,
224-472: A public invitation that did not have a cut-off date. When the mounting collection of geological specimens threatened the stability of this first floor, the museum's first officer-in-charge, Surgeon Edward Balfour, who was then president of the Literary Society and serving the museum in an honorary capacity, suggested moving to a new building, which was materialised in 1854 with the move to the Pantheon. A library and
252-401: A reading room were provided for the public in 1859. In 1864, an upper storey was added to the Pantheon in sympathetic style, giving the museum more elbow room. The library got a new block, now known as the centenary exhibition hall of the museum after restoration, in the northwest corner of the Pantheon in 1876, with a lecture hall. By 1896, there had been built new buildings for the museum (where
280-537: Is a significant landmark of Nungambakkam located towards the end of Valluvar Kottam High Road. The Regional Passport Office of Chennai is located on Haddows Road, Nungambakkam. It issues passports to half of Tamil Nadu. Nungambakkam is also home to the Austrian, Canadian and South Korean consulates in Chennai, as well as the British Deputy High Commission. Nungambakkam is well connected to other parts of
308-547: Is also a prime residential area in Chennai. The adjoining regions of Nungambakkam include Egmore , Chetpet , T. Nagar , Kodambakkam and Choolaimedu . Nungambakkam is one of the oldest parts of Chennai. It formed the western limits of Madras until the 1960s, and it was part of Madras since the 18th century. According to K.V. Raman's The Early History of the Madras Region , Nungambakkam features in an 11th-century CE copper plate pertaining to Rajendra Chola. According to
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#1732844044639336-418: Is primarily a semicircular structure with a rectangular wing at the rear. The latter wing now houses some of the galleries of the museum. The main hall is accessed through a verandah with a row of columns linked by semicircular arches. The walls and columns are embellished with floral and geometric designs. The huge main hall was initially designed for staging theatrical performances. It has around 600 seats and
364-743: 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 among the largest collection of Roman antiquities outside Europe , peculiarly in
392-492: The National Art Gallery . In August 1778, the governor of Madras granted 43 acres for an estate to a civil servant, who, subsequently in 1793, assigned the grounds to a committee of 24 which then regulated the public amusements in the city. In 1821, the committee sold the main house and central garden space to E. S. Moorat, an Armenian merchant who, in turn, sold it back to the government in 1830. The government first used
420-561: The numismatics field, and is very likely the most richly endowed museum in Asia (outside Western Asia ) concerning this civilisation. 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
448-515: The Chennai Corporation's records, Nungambakkam village, which was under a Mughal firman, was handed over to the British along with four other villages (Tiruvatiyoor, Kathiwakam, Vyasarpady and Sathangadu) in 1708. These five villages were hence forward known as the 'Five New Towns'. Since then, Nungambakkam has been a part of Madras city. Public buildings and colleges rose in the 1850s. In
476-512: The Pantheon, identified from the broad steps leading into it when viewed from the north. Amongst the additions is the Connemara Public Library , built with stained glass windows, ornate woodwork and elaborate stucco decorations, formally opened in 1896 and named after its progenitor. The building was built by Namberumal Chetty and was designed by Henry Irwin, with the interiors resembling those of Bank of Madras (SBI). The design included
504-544: The anthropological and arms galleries are presently located), the Connemara Library and the museum theatre. The museum grounds also housed the first zoo of Madras in 1855, which was also established by Balfour. A year later, it had over 300 animals, including mammals, birds and reptiles. The zoo was later made a separate institution and was shifted to the People's Park in 1863 where it remained, not growing very much, until it
532-457: The buildings and the grounds as the collector's "Cutcherry" and later for the "Central Museum." The museum was originally established in a building on College Road in Nungambakkam in the year 1851 and was shifted to the present site in 1854. Many additions to the original building were constructed between 1864 and 1890. The core of the old museum building includes the only surviving remnants of
560-493: The children's museum is visited by 1,000 people a day, and the number of visitors increases during weekends. An air-conditioned 3D theatre, the first of its kind facility in a state museum, is under construction at the children's museum in the museum complex at a cost of ₹ 4 million. Equipments are to be provided by the National Council of Science Museums , Kolkata . The theatre will screen science-oriented films. It screen
588-516: The city. Many of the state-run Metropolitan Transport Corporation buses run through Nungambakkam. Nungambakkam has its own Suburban Train Station on the Chennai Beach - Tambaram Railway Station railway line, which connects it to other parts of the city. The Nungambakkam station is among the top three EMU stations, along with Chromepet and St. Thomas Mount, in terms of the number of persons who use
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#1732844044639616-600: The early part of the 20th century, Nungambakkam rose as one of the upper-class European residential areas, housing civil servants and influential members of the city administration. Most of the neighborhood today is built upon the Long Tank which was encroached and eventually made a landfill in the early 1970's. The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica records the presence of vast empty spaces and parks in Nungambakkam. Most of Nungambakkam's principal lanes, such as College Road, Haddows Road and Sterling Road, are over 100 years old and appear in
644-598: The library benefited greatly from the effects of the Madras Literary Society, the Oriental Manuscripts Library and the Records Office. The museum houses a 19th-century theatre, with the "pit" meant for those who can afford more and seating for the rest of the audience in tiered-seats arranged in a semi-circle around the pit. Restoration to mark the 150th anniversary of the museum replaced 25 fans with air-conditioning. The museum's collections had its origin from
672-523: The main museum entrance gates on Pantheon Road, the museum theatre is a rare specimen of the Italianate style of architecture, inspired by Classical architecture and developed in 1802 at Britain by John Nash. However, the theatre was built by the British in the late 19th century when this style was no longer popular in England . The structure has a high plinth and is accessed through a tall flight of stairs. It
700-576: The museum is also a designated "Manuscript Conservation Centre" (MCC) under the National Mission for Manuscripts established in 2003. The museum has taken preventive care of about 19,007 manuscripts and given curative conservation treatment to about 7,402 manuscripts. The museum for children in the complex houses several static exhibits such as galleries of dolls adorned with costumes of various nations and civilisations and also exhibits pertaining to science, transportation, and technology. As of 2013,
728-503: The richest collections of bronze idols, 500 of them dating to 1000 BCE, in Asia. The museum is located in what is known as the Pantheon complex, or "public assembly rooms." It is located in the Government Museum Complex on Pantheon Road in Egmore. The road on which the museum is located too takes its name from the complex. The Government Museum Complex also houses the Connemara Public Library and
756-515: The title Government Museum . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Government_Museum&oldid=890996652 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Government Museum, Chennai The Government Museum, Chennai , or
784-610: Was moved to its present location at Vandalur in 1985. An official website for the museum was launched on 25 October 2001 after the government sanctioned ₹ 0.5 million in 2000–2001. (Additional Charge) (Additional Charge) The museum complex consisting of six buildings and 46 galleries covers an area of around 16.25 acres (66,000 m ) of land. The objects displayed in the museum cover a variety of artifacts and objects covering diverse fields including archeology , numismatics , zoology , natural history , sculptures , palm-leaf manuscripts , and Amravati paintings. Located close to
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