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 Gujarat patronizes the abundance of cultural and sociological tradition. Though the royal palaces of Gujarat successfully convey its rich cultural and architectural legacy, an account of its history and culture will also be available in a number of museums of the state. It is important to note that the beauty of this state is not just symbolized by its forts, palaces, sea beaches and ashrams, but also by its several museums. What have contributed to their beauty are its varied exhibits of the past, through which one will enter the intriguing world of science, art and archeology.
Museums of Gujarat
The city of Ahmedabad serves as a home to several depositories. They are the Calico Museum of Textiles, Vechaar (Vishalla Environmental Centre for Heritage of Art, Architecture, and Research) Utensils Museum, World Vintage Car Museum, Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum, Kite Museum and Sardar Patel Museum. Museums like Maharaja Fateh Singh Museum and Baroda Museum and Art Gallery are housed in the city of Vadodara. Rotary Midtown Dolls Museum and Watson Museum are housed in Rajkot.  The two significant museums of Junagadh are the Darbar Hall Museum and Ayurvedic Museum. A museum called the Kutch Museum is situated in Kutch. Lakhota Museum serves as a tourist attraction of a place called Jamnagar.
Exhibits of Museums of Gujarat
The museums of Gujarat will provide its visitors with glimpses of the earlier emperors, incidents from their lives and portraits of the royal families. Some of the museums of Gujarat were initially the residences of maharajas and even today house most of the valuable personal belongings of the royal personages.
Calico Museum of Textiles contains hand-woven fabrics from across India. Vechaar Utensils Museum holds a collection of utensils made of wood, stainless steel, copper, mud, glass, brass, bronze, zinc and German silver. World Vintage Car Museum has one of the most unique collections of vintage cars. Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum is bedecked with ancient Indian sculptures, manuscripts, books and paintings. The exhibits of Kite Museum are hand-made kites made of 400 species of paper. Sardar Patel Museum is adorned with a collection of over 10,000 specimens of arts and craft. Some of the exhibits of Maharaja Fateh Singh Museum are European paintings, Greco-Roman artifacts and Mughal miniatures. Baroda Museum and Art Gallery provides shelter to Tibetan arts, Egyptians antiquities and paintings. Different kinds of dolls in different outfits and style are housed in Rotary Midtown Dolls Museum. Watson Museum contains textiles, sculptures, coins, anthropology, handicraft, musical instruments, etc.
Lakhota Museum is preserving pottery from medieval villages, skeleton of a whale, swords, powder flasks and possessions of Jadeja Rajputs.
(Last Updated on : 20-10-2016)
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