Museums in Gujarat
Baroda Museum & Picture Gallery
Located in the popular Sayaji Bagh, the museum houses a collection which belonged
to the former maharaja Sayaji Rao Gaekwad. Indian rulers during the Raj often
collected all kinds of European art and other knick knacks.
Largely being the personal collection of the maharaja, the exhibits span across
centuries and continents, as well as diverse art forms. There are Greek and
Roman sculpture with European paintings of earlier periods. Asian section has
items from Burma, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, China and Japan made of wood, ivory,
bronze and pottery.
The Indian
art section is a line collection of ancient objects. There is a bronze jar
circa
2nd century AD, perhaps associated with the Graeco-Roman trading with India
around Gujarat in pre historic times. There are painted manuscripts from Rajasthan
school, a Ragamala series and family portraits.
Baroda Museum and Picture Gallery
Sayaji Park Vadodara
Timing: 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
Closed on Mondays and government holidays.
