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City Palace Museum, Jaipur

City Palace Museum is an integral part of City Palace of Jaipur city. It is located in Diwan-I-Aam, an inbuilt hall of the palace. This City Palace museum houses some of the rare Hindu scriptures of the primitive period of India. These scriptures were mostly written by hands. Most significant are the minute copies of the Bhagwat Gita, which were prepared to protect them from Mughal king Aurangzeb`s onslaught on holy religious scriptures.

Other treasures of City Palace Museum include a handful of miniature paintings. They are quite frail thereby depicting several themes of the Ramayana and also other primeval Hindu mythological scriptures. They belong to several schools of Indian art and architecture like Rajasthan, Mughal and Persian. Also the ceilings are painted colorfully and are quite attractive. The ceiling possesses huge chandeliers. These are usually sheltered from dust covers. Only on special occasions they are displayed for special occasions. The City Palace Museum, Jaipur, has recorded its name in The Guinness Book of Records for being the principal silver objects in the world.

City Palace Museum, Jaipur The elephant saddles, better known as the haudas is worth mentioning.

There is Diwan-I-Khas, or hall of the public audience of City Palace Museum, lying between the art gallery and the armory museum. It is lined up in beautiful marbles. City Palace Museum houses sterling silver item of 2 mammoth silver vessels. It is the world`s largest one. As per the opinion of the experts `Maharaja Sawai Madho Singh II` possessed these vessels. He used to take them to River Ganga and fill them for drinking.

Till today imperial family members reside in a portion of this City Palace museum. However the visitors are permitted to visit this portion where numerous things are being displayed. In the outside courtyard superb peacock deserves to be mentioning. In other words this city palace museum is well preserved which retains ancient legacies with immense concern.

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