Categories: Historical Places

Baroda Museum & Picture Gallery

The Baroda Museum and Picture Gallery  was founded in 1887 by Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad. Created for the welfare and education .His subjects, his foresight and taste were responsible for the museum’s unique and varied collection. He procured the priceless items himself or specially entrusted the work to various scholars and art connoisseurs. Vadodara museum today possesses some very rare exhibits and enjoys an international reputation for being one of the best in the East.

Construction of museum was started in 1887 and was completed in 1894

The museum and the picture gallery are two separate two-storied buildings built in the Indo-Saracenic style of architecture. They were designed by two English architects, R.F. Chisholm – the then Consulting State Architect – and Major R.N. Ment. The general outline of the museum building is in conformity with the traditional local Maratha architecture of wooden framework filled with brick walls. But the ground floor has the pure European style, including a cornice decorated with a plaster copy of a Parthenon frieze. The south porch rising on a vast flight of steps is decorated with early and later Mughal forms. The pure gallery building was designed in a simple European brick style, but it has Indian columns and open pavilions on the roof. The two building are connected by a covered bridge passage. The total floor area of both the buildings is about 40,000 sq. ft.

 

The Baroda Museum’s Rooms:

  1. Michel Angelo
  2. Graeco-Roman room
  3. European Roman, 7th-18th centuries AD (pre-industrial period)
  4. European Room: 18th-20th centuries AD (industrial period)
  5. Special exhibition hall
  6. Special exhibition hall
  7. Library
  8. Library
  9. Store, Civilizations and Arts of Asia
  10. Greater Indian room
  11. Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Malaya, Indo-China, Indonesia
  12. Japanese Gallery
  13. Tibet-Nepalese gallery
  14. Egypt-Babylonian Gallery
  15. Chinese Gallery
  16. Islamic Gallery (Persia, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Spain, etc.), Survey of Indian civilisation and arts
  17. Baroda room (Gujarat and Maratha art)
  18. Indian art since ca AD 1200 (mainly painting and industrial)
  19. Central hall (Baroda state history)
  20. Prehistoric and protohistoric room
  21. Archaeological section

The Picture Gallery’s Rooms:

1. Balcony with a Bronze statue
2,3. European paintings of the 15th -18th centuries AD
4. European paintings of 19th century AD
5. Picture restoration room
6. Store
7,8. Modern Indian picture gallery, natural history room
9-14. Zoology
15. Paleontology
16. Ethnology
17. Mineralogy, petrology, geology

Baroda Museum’s Activities

Every year it has about 700,000 visitors from all parts of the world. For the benefit of visitors and the general public the museum organises various educational activities.

  • It is open round the year (10.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.), except for 5 public holidays.
  • The entrance is Rs. 5 per visitor, but children under 12 years are exempted.
  • The museum periodically organises cultural and educational exhibitions on various topics.
  • Illustrated lectures are arranged in the museum’s lecture theatre and experts on different subjects are specially invited for this purpose.
  • Educational films are shown regularly for the benefit of school children and visitors.
  • The services of guides are provided.
  • ‘Gallery-talks’ are also arranged for school children and illiterate students.
  • Facilities for drawing and study of exhibits at close quarters are provided.
  • Necessary permission to take photographs of exhibits and to make use of the library for research work can be obtained by making a written application.
  • The museum publishes its research bulletins annually.
  • Plaster-cast models of some selected objects of the museum are prepared by skilled artists in the modelling studio and sold to interested persons.

The Baroda Museum & Picture Gallery is now a part of the Gujarat state Department of Museums.

For further details, contact:
Director
Baroda Museum & Picture Gallery
Sayajibaug, Vadodara 390 018, India
Phone: +91-265-793589. Telefax: +91-265-791959

For specific inquiries regarding exhibits, contact:
Mr. Satish Sadasivan, Curator (Arts)
Baroda Museum & Picture Gallery
Sayajibaug, Vadodara 390 018, India
Phone: +91-265-2793801. Telefax: +91-265-2791959
E-mail: s_sadashivan@rediffmail.com

Saumil Joshi

Recent Posts

ડિજિટલ એરેસ્ટ અને વર્ચ્યુઅલ નંબરથી થતા સાયબર અપરાધ: એ અનોખું ખતરું

ડિજિટલ એરેસ્ટ ની નવી મોડેસ ઓપરેન્ડી વર્ચ્યુઅલ નંબરનો ઉપયોગ કરતા સાયબર માફિયા ડિજિટલ એરેસ્ટના કેસોમાં…

1 day ago

 થર્ટીફર્સ્ટ અગાઉ અઢળક દારૂ, ચરસ, ગાંજો ઝડપાયો

 થર્ટીફર્સ્ટ અગાઉ અઢળક દારૂ, ચરસ, ગાંજો ઝડપાયો   રાજ્યમાં થર્ટીફર્સ્ટ ની ઉજવણી કરવા યુવાધન ઘેલું…

3 days ago

સૂતી વખતે સ્વેટર અને મોજા પહેરવાની ખતરનાક આદતોથી બચો

શું તમે પણ રાત્રે સૂતી વખતે સ્વેટર અને મોજા પહેરી સૂઈ જાઓ છો !?.. આ…

3 days ago

સ્વાસ્થ્ય માટે શિયાળામાં અગત્યના ટીપ્સ: આ ઋતુમાં કેવી રીતે રાખો તંદુરસ્તી

શિયાળો એટલે સ્વાસ્થ્ય અને શરીરને આખા વર્ષ માટે ચાર્જ કરવાની ઋતુ શિયાળો એટલે આખા વર્ષ…

4 days ago

ગુજરાતમાં સ્માર્ટ મીટરિંગ પ્રોજેક્ટ: RDSS પહેલ સાથે ઉર્જા વ્યવસ્થાપનમાં પરિવર્તન

"ગુજરાતમાં સ્માર્ટ મીટરિંગ પ્રોજેક્ટ: એનર્જી માટે એક સ્માર્ટ ભવિષ્ય" વીજ વિતરણ કંપનીઓની બિલિંગ સેવાઓમાં ક્રાંતિ…

4 days ago

આરોગ્ય સેવા: કયા કારણોથી ડોકટરો પરનો વિશ્વાસ ખોવાઈ રહ્યો છે?

આરોગ્ય સેવા :ભગવાનનું સ્વરૂપ ગણાતા ડોકટરો 'કસાઈ' કેમ બની રહ્યા છે..? પૈસાને પરમેશ્વર ગણી પૂજાતા…

4 days ago