Friday, 25 October 2013

Salarjung Museum

This museum is a unique art collection of a single. Great connoisseur of art, Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, better known to the world as Salarjung III , scion of an illustrious and wealthy family and a short lived prime minister of Hyderabad. The object d’art include Persian carpets,  Mughal miniatures, famous sculptors including the veiled Rebecca and Marguerite and Mephistopheles, a superb collection of jade, Daggers belonging to Nur jahen, Jehangir, shahjahan, Aurangzeb’s sword, cuckoo clocks and walking sticks.

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