Revi Karunakaran Memorial Museum

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The Revi Karunakaran Museum

The Revi Karunakaran Memorial Museum is a privately owned museum located in Alappuzha, Kerala, in southern India. It is named in memory of Revi Karunakaran.

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The Museum

In 2003, it was built by Betty Karan in memory of her husband, the coir industrialist Revi Karunakaran. [1] It holds one of the largest private collections of Swarovski crystals in the world along with porcelain, jade, ivory, Keralan artifacts, furniture, and Tanjore paintings. [2] [3] [4]

The museum was inaugurated on 22 November 2006 by the former governor of Meghalaya M.M. Jacob. [1] The third phase of the museum was inaugurated on 22 November 2015 by Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, the fifth President of Sri Lanka. [5] [6] [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "About us - RKK Museum". RKK Museum. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  2. ↑ Planet, Lonely; Benanav, Michael; Blasi, Abigail; Brown, Lindsay; Elliott, Mark; Harding, Paul; Kaminski, Anna; Mahapatra, Anirban; Mayhew, Bradley (1 October 2017). Lonely Planet India. Lonely Planet. ISBN   9781787011991.
  3. ↑ Travel, Femina (19 June 2017). "Five things to do in Alleppey, Kerala". Femina India. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  4. ↑ "Revi Karunakaran Museum in Alappuzha, Revi Karuna Karan Museum". www.alappuzhaonline.in. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  5. ↑ "കാഴ്ചയുടെ അത്ഭുത ലോകം തുറന്ന് ശ്രീലങ്കന്‍ മുന്‍ പ്രസിഡന്റ്‌ (Former Sri Lankan President opens an amazing world to behold)". Mathrubhumi. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  6. ↑ "ചന്ദ്രിക കുമാരതുംഗെ ആലപ്പുഴയില്‍ (Chandrika Kumaratunga in Alappuzha)". Deepika. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  7. ↑ "RKK Museum 3rd Phase Inaguration". YouTube . Retrieved 27 September 2017.

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