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Delhi, India

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This sight is located in Delhi, India. For travel information about Delhi, read the Delhi Travel Guide. To prepare for a trip to India, read also the India Travel Guide. Looking for budget accommodation? Use AsiaExplorers Budget Accommodation Guide, the no-frills website to cover your budget accommodation needs.


The National Museum of India showcases Indian history covering five millennia with its impressive collection of more than 150,000 pieces. The Museum's collection of Indus Valley relics and Central Asian treasures from the Silk Road is considered the finest in the world.

Almost 700 years after the Silk Road fell into disuse, a British archaeologist by the name of Sir Aurel Stein led a series of expeditions in 1900-16 to uncover its treasures. Stein's Central Asian collection are from those he discovered in the Taklamakan Desert which includes paintings, Buddhist manuscripts and valuable records of life during those ancient times.



Exhibit in the National Museum.


The National Museum is also noted for its Indian sculpture and jewellery collection, bronzes of the Chola civilization in South India, and the Buddhist gallery, which includes a carved Buddhist gateway from Sanchi. Also on display is a new gallery of Adivasi culture on the second floor.

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Photo Gallery of the National Museum


Main entrance of National Museum.



Façade of the National Museum.



The exhibits in the museum.



The exhibits in the museum.



The exhibits in the museum.



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