PACKAGE-3(1 days
tour) "Explore the Museums of Delhi "
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Delhi Crafts Museum- Dolls Museum- Gandhi Museum- Indira
Gandhi Memorial Museum- National Museum of Natural History-
Nehru Memorial Museum & Library- National Rail Museum
Delhi
Crafts Museum
The Delhi
Crafts Museum at Pragati Maidan displays India's rich tradition
of handicrafts which is selectively collected from all over
the country. The
Authentically constructed mud huts are beautifully decorated
with folk art and exhibits like woodcarvings, paintings,
paper-mache, embroidery etc. Tourists can buy the objects,
ornaments, rugs, shawls and books from the craftsmen as
well as from the museum.
Dolls
Museum
The Delhi
Dolls Museum is also known as Shankar’s International
Dolls Museum. It has the largest collections of costume
dolls in the world. Today the museum houses over 6,500 dolls
from 85 countries and different states of India. There are
some special displays on themes like Man on the Moon, Gandhiji’s
Dandi March, A Forest Scene, A Kathakali Stage, etc. Other
interesting exhibits are a 250-year-old doll from Switzerland,
Maypole dance (Hungary), Flamenco dancers from Spain, the
Kabuki dancer of Japan, a scene from the Ramayana (Thailand),
Bridal pairs (Indonesia), the Kandy Perahera Festival (Sri
Lanka), Mexican aborigines, Australian Maoris, characters
from a ballet (South Korea), dolls in picturesque folk costumes
from Bulgaria and the dancing dolls of Tamil Nadu etc.
Gandhi
Museum
This museum
contains all the personal relics, manuscripts, books, journals
,documents, photographic and audio-visual material of Mahatma
Gandhi.
Indira
Gandhi Memorial Museum
The Indira
Gandhi Memorial Museum is located at 1 Safdarjung Road where
the only lady prime minister of India Mrs Indira Gandhi
used to lived. The house contains a collection of photographs
which shows her life from her childhood to her days as prime
minister. Her library and living room is beeing maintained
just as she kept them. A number of rooms are dedicated to
her son Rajiv Gandhi who was also the prime minister of
India and assassinated in May 1991. In the garden there
is a path where she was assassinated on October 31, 1984
by her own Sikh bodyguards.
National
Museum of Natural History
The National
Museum of Natural History has various exhibit galleries
like Bio-Science Computer Room, an Activity Room and a Mobile
Museum, which are used for promoting environmental awareness
among different target groups. It organises the educational
activities for the benefit of school children and teachers
within the meseum permises to Know the Environment, nature
painting and animal and plant modelling etc.
Nehru
Memorial Museum & Library
The Nehru
Memorial Museum and Library portrays the life and times
of Jawaharlal Nehru against the backdrop of Indian freedom
movement. The library dispalyes the printed materials, books,
periodicals, newspapers and photographs with special focus
on the history of modern India. These are the primary source
for historical research and education.
National
Rail Museum
The Rail Transport
Museum consist all the information on the history of railways.
There are models of train engines and coaches like the first
train in India which made its journey from Mumbai to Thane
in 1853, the Viceregal Dining Car (1889), the Prince of
Wales Saloon (1875), Maharaja of Mysore's Saloon (1899),
Maharaja of Baroda's Saloon (1886) and the most beautifull
Fairy Queen, built in 1855.
