![]() The one man collection museums show the collections which have been collected by the different kings and queens of Hyderabad. They show the gifts to the Kings which were received from the different foreign traders and the colonial governments. Some of the museums are Nizam Museum or H.E.H Nizam's Museum, City Museum and Salar Jung Museum. Nizam Museum of Hyderabad Nizam's Museum or H.E.H Nizam's Museum is a museum located in Hyderabad at Purani Haveli, a palace of the erstwhile Nizams of Hyderabad. H.E.H Nizam's Museum showcases the gifts that the last Nizam of Hyderabad state, Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII received on his silver jubilee celebrations. ![]() City Museum is a museum located in Hyderabad, which is now the capital of both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The city museum is situated in the palace Purani Haveli. The museum was inaugurated on 11 March 2012 by Nizam's Jubilee Pavilion Trust chairman, Prince Muffakham Jah, the grandson of the last ruler of Hyderabad state Mir Osman Ali Khan. Salar Jung Museum of Hyderabad Salar Jung Museum is a medieval and modern royal art museum located at Darushifa, on the southern bank of the Musi river in the city of Hyderabad, which is now located in Telangana. It is one of the three National Museums of India. Salar Jung Museum has a collection of sculptures, paintings, carvings, textiles, manuscripts, ceramics, metallic artefacts, carpets, clocks, and furniture from Japan, China, Burma, Nepal, India, Persia, Egypt, Europe and North America. The collection of Salar Jung Museum was sourced from the property of the Salar Jung family. Salar Jung Museum is the third largest museum in India housing the biggest one-man collections of antiques in the world. It is well known throughout India for its prized collections belonging to different civilizations dating back its very largest accusations to the 1st century. Nawab Mir Yusuf Ali Khan Salar Jung III (1889-1949), former Prime Minister of the seventh Nizam of Hyderabad, spent a substantial amount of his income over thirty five years to make this priceless collection, his life's passion. The collections of Salar Jung Museum left behind in his ancestral palace, "Diwan Deodi" were formerly exhibited there as a private museum which was inaugurated by Jawaharlal Nehru in the year 1951. Later in the year 1968, the museum shifted to its present location at Afzalgunj and is administered by a Board of Trustees with the Governor of Telangana as ex officio-chairperson under the Salar Jung Museum Act of 1961. Birla Science Museum of Hyderabad ![]() (Last Updated on : 15-12-2014) |
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Museums of Telangana