SALARJUNG MUSEUM

The Salarjung Museum at Hyderabad is a unique art collection of a great connoisseur of art, Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, better known to the world as Salarjung III, scion of an illustrious and wealthy family.

The Salarjung Museum is a royal treat to the connoisseurs with a collection of over 43000 art objects and 50000 books and manuscripts. The collections include Indian Art, Middle Eastern Art, Far Eastern Art, European Art, Children Art along with a Founders gallery and a rare manuscript section. Indian Art includes stone sculptures, bronze images, jade carvings, painted textiles, wood carvings, miniature paintings, modern art, ivory carvings, textiles, metal-ware, manuscript, arms & armour etc. Middle Eastern Art contains the collection of carpets, paper (manuscripts), glass, metal-ware, furniture, lacquer etc. from Persia, Arabia, Syria, and Egypt. Collection of Far Eastern Art exhibit porcelain, bronze, enamel, lacquerware, embroidery, painting, wood & inlay work from China, Japan, Tibet, Nepal and Thailand etc. Oil and watercolor paintings form an important part of the European Collection.

Gallery 28the clock room is one of the best galleries displaying more than 300 clocks in various sizes ranging from Sandiers to modern day huge pieces. There are tiny pieces set in magnifying glasses to huge and stately grandfather clocks from France, England, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. An interesting exhibit here is a musical clock from Cook and Kelvy of England with a toy figure of a watchman, who pushes open the door every hour in a great hurry, to beat the melodious gong to indicate time.Hope everyone makes a Visit and Enjoy this Place

*  BIRLA MANDIR

Just across the public gardens in Hyderabad, lie two hillocks - Naubaat Pahad and Kala Pahad. There is a beautiful hanging garden laid out on one hillock and a marble temple of Lord Sri Venkateswara has been constructed on the other.

The magnificent architecture of this temple is synthesis of north and south Indian style. The main temple is of the North Indian style and RajaGopuram (main entrance gate) and Garudalaya are of south Indian style of Architecture. The main deity is 9.5 feet high made of granite brought from Phirangipuram in Guntar District.