Archaeological Museum : Location: Shamla Hills,Bhopal,
Madhya Pradesh, India
URL: http://www.mparchaeology.org/statemus.asp
URL: http://www.mparchaeology.org/statemus.asp
The State Museum of
Madhya Pradesh was earlier known as Bhopal Museum. It was during the reign of
Nawab Shah Jehan Begum (1868-1901) that a serious effort was made to collect
rare objects for the Museum. Articles were acquired from remote corners of the
world. The assortment included artistic creations from China, Tibet, Japan and
Europe, besides all regions of India. Her daughter Nawab Sultan Jehan Begum
(1901-1926) established King Edward Museum in 1909, in an exquisite building
with colonial features, which is now known as Central Library and is located in
the busy area of old Bhopal. Later the Museum was shifted to Banganga region and
was known as the Bhopal Museum. It existed there for several years, till the
time the new Museum building came up on Shyamla Hills and all the antiquities
were shifted there.The building was designed by the Environmental Planning and
Co-ordination Organization (EPCO) and constructed by Capital Project
Administration (C.P.A.). Read More HERE. Visit STATE
MUSEUM VIRTUAL TOUR
Bharat Bhawan : Location: J. Swaminathan Marg,
Shamla Hills, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India,
URL: http://bharatbhawan.org/
URL: http://bharatbhawan.org/
Bharat
Bhavan is an
autonomous multi-arts complex and museum in the state of capital Bhopal, established
and funded by the Government of Madhya Pradesh. Opened
in 1982, facing the Upper Lake, Bhopal, it houses an art gallery, a
fine art workshop, an open-air amphitheater, a studio theatre, an auditorium, a
museum tribal and folk art, libraries of Indian poetry, classical music as well
as folk music. The complex includes an art gallery of Indian painting and
sculpture, a fine art workshop, an open-air amphitheatre (Bahirang), a studio
theatre (Abhirang), an auditorium (Antarang), a museum tribal and folk art,
libraries of Indian poetry, classical music as well as folk music. Besides
this, Bhavan also hosts various artists and writers under its artist-in-residence program
at the "Ashram". Over the years, it has also become a popular
tourist attraction. Read More HERE.
Bhimbetka Caves: Location: Raisen District of Madhya Pradesh, India,
The Bhimbetka
rock shelters are
an archaeological site of the Paleolithic, exhibiting the earliest
traces of human life on the Indian subcontinent, and thus the
beginning of the South
Asian Stone Age. It is located in the Raisen District in
the Indian state
of Madhya Pradesh. The Bhimbetka shelters exhibit
the earliest traces of human life in India. At least some of the shelters were
inhabited by Homo erectus more
than 300,000 years ago. Some of the Stone Age rock
paintings found
among the Bhimbetka rock shelters are approximately 30,000 years old. The
caves also deliver early evidence of dance. They were declared a World
Heritage Site in
2003. The name Bhimbetka is associated with Bhima,
a hero-deity of the epic Mahabharata. The
word Bhimbetka is
said to derive from Bhimbaithka,
meaning "sitting place of Bhima". Read more HERE.
