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The Government Museum and Art Gallery were built for housing the artefacts received from the Lahore Museum during the partition of India. [3] The building was designed by the Swiss-born French architect, Le Corbusier along with his associate architects namely Manmohan Nath Sharma, Pierre Jeanneret and Shiv Dutt Sharma. [4]
The Indian Air Force Heritage Museum, located at Chandigarh is India's first air force heritage centre. [1] Opened in May 2023, it showcases the role of Indian Air Force (IAF) in all the wars and is equipped with modern paraphernalia like virtual reality, augmented reality, hologram, simulators and electro mechanical enclosures.
The Rock Garden of Chandigarh is a sculpture garden in Chandigarh, India. It is also known as Nek Chand Saini's Rock Garden of Nathupur after its founder Nek Chand Saini, a government official who started building the garden secretly in his spare time in 1957. It has spread over an area of 40 acres (16 ha), and is completely built from ...
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The Open Hand Monument is a symbolic structure designed by the architect Le Corbusier and located in the Capitol Complex of the Indian city and union territory of Chandigarh. It is the emblem and symbol of the Government of Chandigarh and symbolizes "the hand to give and the hand to take; peace and prosperity, and the unity of mankind". [1]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha State Museum; Chandigarh: Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh; Chennai: Government Museum, Chennai, The National Art Gallery (Chennai) Hyderabad: Salar Jung Museum; Jaipur: Albert Hall Museum, Jawahar Kala Kendra; Kolkata: Asutosh Museum of Indian Art, Indian Museum, Victoria Memorial (India)
In 1951 it was first established as Government School of Art and craft at Shimla, [5] the capital of Punjab and subsequently Govt. College of art and craft, Chandigarh. On re-organization of Punjab, the control came under Chandigarh Administration. This institution is situated in Sector 10 C, adjoining the Government Museum and Art Gallery ...
The renowned political cartoonist, K. Shankar Pillai (1902–1989) founded this museum in 1965 with thousand dolls. The museum covers an area of 5,184.5 square feet (481.66 m 2). The former President of India, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan inaugurated the Dolls Museum and at the inauguration time the number of dolls was only 500. In between 1965 and in ...