Telangana State Museum Plans to Expand Its Collection
3 months, 1 week ago

Telangana State Museum Plans to Expand Its Collection

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The State Archaeology Museum in Public Gardens, the oldest museum in the city dating back to the 1920s, houses a diverse collection of artifacts reflecting the region’s rich history. Its galleries feature inscriptions, Ajanta paintings, Islamic art, and archaeological remains from the Buddhist, Jain, Veera Shaivism, and Islamic periods. The museum also displays ancient fonts such as Thuluth and Nasqh, which were used in earlier periods, while Shikasta, a more complex font, emerged during the Mughal court. The inscriptions also drew attention, with scripts ranging from simpler fonts developed in Central Asia to more complex ones created in India during the Mughal era.

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Telangana State Museum fails to stand test of time
6 months, 1 week ago

Telangana State Museum fails to stand test of time

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Just 200 metres or a four-minute walk from the Telangana State Legislative Assembly stands the Telangana State Archaeological Museum — the oldest museum building in the state that is now left alone to stand the test of time. Visitors, fewer in numbers than the employees at the museum, are greeted with a damaged entrance gate, empty display cases with …

We will preserve rich cultural heritage of Telangana: Revanth
7 months, 3 weeks ago

We will preserve rich cultural heritage of Telangana: Revanth

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Stating that Hyderabad epitomised communal harmony in its truest sense, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy said that the state government will preserve the culture and rich heritage of Telangana and put them on the world map. I am extending gratitude on behalf of the state government and the people to the Aga Khan Trust for Culture for its cooperation …

Ten years after the creation of a separate Telangana: Dividing a culture
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Ten years after the creation of a separate Telangana: Dividing a culture

The Hindu  

Rajasekhara Reddy Museum in Hyderabad is a hallway where visitors are asked to remove their footwear. Relics of the Buddha Within the four earthen vessels, arranged according to the way they were discovered in Bavikonda, about 16 kilometres from Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, are gold objects and precious beads. Among them are the Buddha’s relics, jade objects, brass statuettes, and …

Preserving Hyderabad’s hidden heritage
11 months, 1 week ago

Preserving Hyderabad’s hidden heritage

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: Monuments reflect the past — both glorious and deplorable at times but then that is a record — a record of our past. The most immediate and apparent vestige of our past is found in monuments,” said Sajjad Shahid, co-convenor of INTACH, Hyderabad Chapter, while talking about the heritage sites and monuments of Hyderabad on World Heritage Day. The …

International Museum Day: Heritage walks in Hyderabad
1 year, 10 months ago

International Museum Day: Heritage walks in Hyderabad

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: A walk will be organised to mark the ‘International Museum Day’ on May 18 at State Museum in Public Gardens at 10 am, and another at Centenary Heritage Museum, Gunfoundry at 12 noon. The Centenary Heritage Museum showcases terracotta, stucco, prehistoric, megalithic, and iron artifacts, early historic objects, temple sculptures and door-jambs collected from the submergence area of the …

Need to make more room for Telangana History
2 years, 1 month ago

Need to make more room for Telangana History

The Hindu  

In small clumsy rooms in two corners of Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University at Nampally are treasure troves of Telangana’s historical artefacts. The collection results from four-and-a-half decades of hard work put in by retired Professor Jayadhir Tirumala Rao and his team moving around tribal populated areas in borders of five states—Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Telangana, from nomadic, sub-tribes …

Maharashtra to get central museum tracking the state from pre-historic era
2 years, 10 months ago

Maharashtra to get central museum tracking the state from pre-historic era

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: Maharashtra is all set to get a museum that will trace the history of the state from pre-historic times when dinosaurs roamed present-day Vidarbha to the political formation of Maharashtra and beyond in what is likely to be one of the biggest museum projects undertaken by the government in recent times. The ‘Maharashtra State Museum,’ which is a ₹500 …

Andhra Pradesh: Archaeology museum at Eluru to display 400 artefacts from early historic period
2 years, 11 months ago

Andhra Pradesh: Archaeology museum at Eluru to display 400 artefacts from early historic period

The Hindu  

The Archaeology and Museums Department of Andhra Pradesh has built a museum in Eluru, where nearly 400 artefacts dating back to the early historic period to the 19th Century AD will be displayed. The museum is likely to be opened on May 18, marking the International Museums Day,” said Archaeology and Museums Assistant Director K. Timmaraju. “Nearly 400 artefacts have …

Ex-PM Narasimha Rao’s home in Telangana to become museum. Here’s how it'll look
3 years, 6 months ago

Ex-PM Narasimha Rao’s home in Telangana to become museum. Here’s how it'll look

Hindustan Times  

Former Indian Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao’s ancestral village Vangara in Telangana’s Karimnagar district is all set to transform into a tourism site. On Friday, Telangana tourism minister V Srinivas Gouda laid the foundation stone for the museum that is aimed to draw tourists and showcase the life of PV Narasimha Rao. “His personal typewriter, his big collection of books …

Telangana: Museum in state of neglect
7 years, 10 months ago

Telangana: Museum in state of neglect

Deccan Chronicle  

Warangal: Way back in 1987, the archaelogy department preserved many remanants from the history of this heritage city at a museum behind the corporation office here. The library in the museum has about 3,000 books with information on the history of the rulers of Warangal among others. Due to lack of maintenance, the books have become old and many are …

Hyderabad: Treasure hunters vandalise temple
8 years, 4 months ago

Hyderabad: Treasure hunters vandalise temple

Deccan Chronicle  

MAHBUBABAD: Parts of a 13th Century temple have been destroyed at Rajolu of Kuravi mandal by miscreants searching for hidden treasure. Telangana to set up culture forum The TS department of archaeology and museums plans to create a platform for scholars to unearth the rich cultural heritage of the state. Telangana abounds in fortified cities, rock cut caves, Buddhist stupas, …

Getting a feel of the Buddhist circuit
8 years, 5 months ago

Getting a feel of the Buddhist circuit

The Hindu  

A team comprising connoisseurs of art and culture, history enthusiasts, and travel writers from various European and Asian countries evinced keen interest in Buddhist Maha Stupa at Nelakondapalli in Kusumanchi mandal on Saturday. The team consisting of foreign delegates, including Desmond B., head of department, Buddhist Research Centre, London, visited the famous Buddhist site at Nelakondapalli as part of the …

Fancy a trip to jail? This Telangana prison offers a warm stay at Rs 500
8 years, 6 months ago

Fancy a trip to jail? This Telangana prison offers a warm stay at Rs 500

Firstpost  

The 220-year-old jail at Sangareddy, which has now been converted into a museum, offers a 24-hour confinement under an innovative initiative called “Feel the Jail Sangareddy: Tourists visiting a colonial-era jail here in Medak district of Telangana can now get a first-hand experience of prison life by paying a fee of Rs 500 for a day’s stay. The 220-year-old District …

No Telangana sites on must see' list of Archaeological Survey of India
8 years, 10 months ago

No Telangana sites on must see' list of Archaeological Survey of India

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The famed Nagarjunakonda, a Buddhist site in Andhra Pradesh has been included in the Archaeological Survey of India’s list of 86 “Must See” outstanding Indian monuments and archaeological sites on its portal, but there is none from Telangana. In the draft “Must See” list, neither Telangana nor Andhra Pradesh monuments were listed. Of the 29 states and seven Union …

Telangana and Andhra Pradesh decide on dividing history
8 years, 10 months ago

Telangana and Andhra Pradesh decide on dividing history

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Officials of Telangana state and AP have begun the process of sharing antiquities housed in museums and those that were unearthed later on. Visalatchy, director, department of archaeology and museums, said that state-wise lists of antiquities including coins in the State Museum and elsewhere were being prepared. According to Mr Ramulu Naik, assistant director, the State Museum had 2,82,376 …

Telangana's only ASI museum lies in neglect
8 years, 11 months ago

Telangana's only ASI museum lies in neglect

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Unfortunately, it’s still the only Archaeological Survey of India museum in Telangana, but it severely lacks publicity and lies in utter neglect. Tucked in an interior Kondapur village, 15 km from Sangareddy and 78 km from Hyderabad, the little-known museum houses exhibits artefacts retrieved from a nearby ancient mound locally known as Kotagadda. The ASI Museum at Kondapur is …

Old, abandoned jails in Telangana to be turned into museums
10 years, 7 months ago

Old, abandoned jails in Telangana to be turned into museums

India TV News  

Hyderabad: All old and abandoned jails in Telangana state will be converted into museums in a bid to link the prison department to society for its betterment, a top official said here yesterday. Our ideas is to link the jail department to the society for its betterment," Director General V K Singh told reporters here Wednesday.Singh said that a shopping …

Buddhist museum in a bad shape
12 years, 4 months ago

Buddhist museum in a bad shape

The Hindu  

A large chunk of tourists who visit the district every year are attracted by the Buddhist museums at Amaravathi and Nagarjunakonda but few people even know that there is a third and equally important museum which has on display an impressive range of inscriptions, stone sculptures and pottery items belonging to the Buddhist era. Tourist deistnations The Amaravathi and Nagarjunakonda …

Centenary celebrations of the government Museum
15 years, 6 months ago

Centenary celebrations of the government Museum

The Hindu  

The Principal Secretary and Commissioner, Department of Archaeology, T. S. Sridhar on Saturday held discussions in connection with the centenary celebrations of the Government Museum here. The Government Museum is the second biggest and oldest museum after the Chennai Museum in the state. 26 lakh will be spent for the renovation of the roof, and the rest for the other …

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