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Welcome
to
ALLAHABAD
MUSEUM
The
Allahabad
Museum
is
centrally
located
in
the
Civil
Lines
area
of
the
city
in
a
lush
green
garden
at
Chandrashekhar
Azad
Park,
popularly
known
as
Company
Bagh.
It
is
about
3
kms
away
from
the
Allahabad
railway
junction
and
almost
equidistant
from
three
different
Railway
Stations
such
as
Prayag,
Rambagh
and
Allahabad
junction
and
about
12
km
away
from
Bamrauli
Airport.
In
1863,
the
Board
of
Revenue
requested
the
Government
of
North-
Western
Provinces
for
the
establishment
of
a
public
library
and
a
museum.
With
donations
from
the
provincial
government,
the
famous
Orientalist
Sir
William
Muir
and
the
Maharaja
of
Vijaynagaram,
a
superintendent
of
the
library
and
museum
was
appointed
and
an
ornate
building
was
inaugurated
in
1878
to
house
the
collection.
For
unforeseen
reasons
or
due
to
paucity
of
fund
the
museum
was
closed
down
in
1881.
With
the
initiative
of
Pandit
Jawaharlal
Nehru,
the
President
of
the
Allahabad
Municipal
Board
and
Pt.
Brijmohan
Vyas
in
the
1923-24
efforts
were
made
to
establish
a
new
museum
in
the
city.
It
was
under
the
operational
direction
of
Pandit
Brij
Mohan
Vyas,
the
executive
officer
of
the
board,
a
museum
was
opened
in
the
Municipal
Building
in
1931.
Under
the
tutelage
of
Pandit
Vyas,
the
museum
acquired
important
collections,
including
ancient
sculptures
from
Bharhut
and
Bhumra
as
well
as
the
art
collections
of
Abanindranath
Tagore,
Jamini
Roy,
Gaganendranath
Tagore,
Asit
Kumar
Haldar
of
the
Bengal
School
Paintings
also
the
collection
of
paintings
of
the
European
artists
like
Nicholas
Roerich
and
Anagarik
Govinda,
a
German
monk
whose
collection
enabled
the
museum
to
create
galleries
of
modern
art
in
the
museum.
In
1942,
S.C.
Kala
the
first
curator
gave
the
much
needed
impetus
to
enriching
the
collections
of
the
museum,
especially
adding
the
Nehru
Personalia
Collection
and
as
space
became
a
constraint,
it
was
decided
that
the
museum
should
be
shifted
from
the
Municipal
Board
building
to
a
new
premises.
The
foundation
stone
of
the
present
museum
building
was
laid
on
14th
December
1947
by
Pandit
Jawaharlal
Nehru
and
the
museum
was
opened
to
the
public
in
1954
in
the
Chandra
Sekhar
Azad
Park
or
the
company
bagh
area.
But
the
real
turning
point
of
the
fate
of
the
museum
came
in
the
year
1986
after
realizing
its
significance
of
the
diversity
of
its
rich
collections
of
archaeological
artifacts,
art
treasures
the
museum
was
taken
over
by
the
Ministry
of
Culture,
Government
of
India
after
constituting
an
autonomous
body
called
Allahabad
Museum
Society,
and
declared
it
a
museum
of
national
importance
under
the
Ministry
of
Culture
Government
of
India.
Presently
the
museum
is
under
the
financial
control
of
the
Ministry
of
Culture,
Government
of
India
and
the
ex-officio
Chairman
of
the
museum
is
the
Governor
of
Uttar
Pradesh.
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