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Wednesday, 24 February 2016
   

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh Museums


The Nizam's Museum, Hyderabad

Located in the stately Purani Haveli, the palace acquired around the year 1750 by the second Nizam is now converted into a museum with a fascinating collection. The museum showcases the gifts and mementos presented to the last Nizam on the occasion of the silver jubilee celebrations in 1936. A 1930 Rolls Royce, Packard and a Mark V Jaguar are among the vintage cars displayed. There is an interesting collection of models made in silver of all the prominent buildings of the city and citations in Urdu about H.E.H. Mir Osman Ali Khan, gold burnished wooden throne used for the silver jubilee celebrations, gold tiffin box inlaid with diamonds, gold model of Jubilee Pavilion, silver coffee cups studded with diamonds and silver filigree elephant with mahout are some of the notable items on display.

The museum is open between 10.00 am and 5.00 pm on all days except Fridays.

2 Km from Charminar and 1 km from Salar Jung museum.

How to Reach This Place

Hyderbad, being Capital city is well conected by Road from all major cities in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Maharastra and Orissa.

Being headquarter of South Central Railway , Well connected from all major cities of India.

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