Acc. No. 236 Ht.115 & Br. 90 cm Tiruvalangadu, Tiruttani Taluk, Tiruvallur District, Tamil Nadu 11 th Century A.D. The Nataraja dances on the apasmara on an oval shaped Lotus pedestal. Nataraja has a head-dress made of feathers. A Skull appears in the middle of the lower part of the headdr...
Museum Theatre The 'Museum Theatre' is one of the heritage buildings in the Government Museum campus very much visible from the Pantheon Road, a rare example of the Indo-Saracenic mode of architecture. The theatre was built by the British in the year 1896 in the model of the then Globe The...
Notable collections of this museum are the world famous South Indian bronzes, Amaravati sculptures, Tanjore (Thanjavur) armoury, inscriptions on stones and copper plates, the Dowleshwaram hoard of gold coins of Raja Raja I and Kulothunga I, the Chengam hoard of copper coins, artifacts from the Megal...
The proposal for a Museum in Egmore, Madras was mooted by the Madras Literary Society in 1846 AD and Sir Henry Pottinger, the then Governor, obtained the sanction of the Court of Directors of the East India Company in London. In January 1851 AD, Dr. Edward Balfour, Medical Officer of the Govern...
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