Musa Dakri Museum

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Musa Dakri Museum
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Musa Dakri Museum (2023)
Established2014
Location Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh

The Musa Dakri Museum is a museum at the Aligarh Muslim University. [1] It is housed in the Kennedy Hall. [2]

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History

The Nizam Museum was the first museum at the university. The Sir Syed Archaeology museum was established in the 1950s. [3]

The Musa Dakri Museum was established by the merger of these collections in 2014. It was named after Musa Dakri, who donated US$500,000 to the university. [4] [5] Some artefacts went missing in 2014, when they were to be shifted. [6]

Collections

An inscription from the reign of Balban is housed here. [3]

This gallery contains artefacts excavated from Atranji Kheda. [3] [7]

References

  1. ↑ "AMU: मूसा डाकरी संग्रहालय में है लकड़ी का जहाज, दो हजार साल पुरानी गौतम बुद्ध की दुर्लभ प्रतिमा". Amar Ujala (in Hindi). Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  2. ↑ "Musa Dakri Museum". Aligarh Muslim University .
  3. 1 2 3 "The History and Development of University Museum of AMU: MUSA DAKRI MUSEUM" (PDF).
  4. ↑ "AMU to set up world class museum". Business Standard. 4 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "Alumni shower donations, AMU set to take up new projects". The Indian Express. 10 July 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  6. ↑ "5000 years old artefacts go missing from AMU's archaeology section". The Times of India. 24 April 2018. ISSN   0971-8257 . Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  7. ↑ "एएमयू : मूसा डाकरी संग्रहालय में हैं सैकड़ों साल पुराने बर्तन, खिलौने, चाकू". Amar Ujala (in Hindi). Retrieved 2 August 2023.

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