Indian Museums

From Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa to Vincent van Gogh's The Potato Eaters, some of the most famous paintings in the world have been stolen from top museums in daring global heists

Equipped with tools to break open display cases and doors, he managed to collect artefacts in a sack, but his attempt to flee failed when he tumbled from the museum's high boundary wall

The museum houses more than 500 artefacts from the collections of the National Museum, ASI and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture

Spread across 117,000 sq metres, the Yuge Yugeen Bharat National Museum will have eight thematic segments, showcasing the story of India spanning across 5,000 years

Officials from the culture ministry and the national museum declined to give a date of the shift. At present, the National Museum has around 2.1 lakh exhibits

To explore a city littered with remnants of an era gone by, the 112-year-old Ambika Vilas in the heart of Trivandrum offers an ideal reprieve from modernity

The central government will soon be setting up science museums across the nation to promote scientific temper

The first of a four-part series turns the gaze to some of India's leading art institutions to see how they are keeping the show going

The Tribal Affairs Ministry on Tuesday said all nine museums dedicated to tribal freedom fighters will be completed by the end of 2022.

Referring to tourist attractions such as monuments and museums, he said, "These are run by the government. It is the time to think how can we make them independent, how we can make them free".

The RBI had taken the building on lease from the Alliance Bank of Simla. Later, when Alliance Bank went into liquidation, RBI took it over from the liquidators.

After Sahapedia began its mapping project last year, it has charted around 250 museums in 15 cities