Srimanthi Bhai Memorial Government Museum

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Srimanthi Bhai Memorial Government Museum
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Srimanthi Bhai Memorial Government Museum
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Location within Karnataka
Established4 May  1960 (1960 -05-04)
Location Bejai Road, Mangaluru, Karnataka
Coordinates 12°53′13″N74°50′47″E / 12.887000°N 74.846491°E / 12.887000; 74.846491 Coordinates: 12°53′13″N74°50′47″E / 12.887000°N 74.846491°E / 12.887000; 74.846491
TypeHistoric house museum
Visitors1 million

Srimanthi Bhai Memorial Government Museum Mangalore, Karnataka, Collection of archaeological and geological artefacts, a unit of Directorate of Archaeology & Museums Karnataka was founded on 4 May 1960 by Sri B.D Jatti, the chief minister of Karnataka Government. The museum is located in Mangalore, the coastal land of Karnataka. [1]

Contents

History

The major portions of the collections were made by Col. V.R. Mirajkar. He was a medical officer at Lahore during the Second World War in the British Indian Army. [2] The museum was his living house, designed and constructed in nearly the same blueprint as the building structures of Milan, Italy, in the year 1935, and it looks like a ship. Later, the house was donated to the government of Karnataka in 1955, [3] along with all the collection of antiques and contemporary masterpieces acquired during his trips within and outside India. Thereafter, it was transformed into a museum and named in honour and memory of his mother, Srimanthi Bhai. It houses antiquities and historical collections that depict the culture and lifestyle of ancient civilizations as well as arts and crafts. 

Exhibition galleries

Painting

The exhibition covers traditional attire, contemporary scenes, portraits, nature of both oil and water painting by various identified and unidentified artists.

The first floor of the building is dedicated to collections made by col. V. R. Mirajkar. He had collected a huge variety of handicrafts from India and also from China, Nepal, Czechoslovakia, Africa, Denmark, Persia, Germany, Japan, Turkey, Brittan, Italy, Tibet, Russia, Venice, Paris, & London. Many of his contemporary collections are unique and have become antique pieces now. Wooden furniture, glass panels, silver & ivory objects, shells, cigar boxes, a variety of lighters, wooden objects, glass materials, metal objects, etc. were personally used by him.

Gandhiji's photo gallery exhibits his collections of Gandhiji's rare photographs. [5] It reflects the life cycle of Gandhiji from birth until the end of the journey. Life in Africa: rallies, non-cooperation movements, Dandi March, Satyagraha, photos depicting Gandhi with Nehru, Jinnah, Kasturba, Rabindranath Tagore, Subhash Chandra Bose, Sardar Patel, Lord Mount Batten, and other historic figures of our nation. Collections of Gandhiji's letters written to Andrews, Wardha, and others

Kids section

Kids section contains a collection of performing puppets, dolls of Yakshagana and Buta Kola, bird & animals figurines, planes, boat models, photographs, wooden models, ethnical & bhootha aaradane Uru of Tulunadu [6]

Stones

Outer premises cover hero stone, Maha Sati Kallu of Tulunadu, Tulu, Kannada inscriptions, statues of soldiers, Jaina, serpent-nagastones and Cannons collected from Jamlabad Fort, Belthangady which are belongings made between 14th to 16th century AD. [7]

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