Albert Hall Central Museum

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Sight Address : Albert Hall (Central Museum) is housed in Ram Niwas Bagh in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Edit

Detail InformationEdit

Albert Hall Central Museum are the best place to visit to know about the culture and traditions. The Albert Hall has developed based on the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. This graceful building was founded in 1876 by Prince Albert. It’s designed and devised by Colonel Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob. It was opened in 1887 as a public museum.

Albert Hall

HistoryEdit

Albert Hall, located a few hundred meters away from Pink city, facing the City, welcomes every visitor of the city. Albert Hall is a museum, which is supposed to be the oldest in the Rajasthan state. It was designed by Colonel Swinton Jacob in 1876 to welcome King Edward VII as Prince of Wales on his visit to Jaipur. The Albert Hall Museum in Jaipur is one of the finest museums of the 19th Century. It was envisioned by Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh-II & bought to life by Thomas Holbein Handley. The Albert Hall building was designed by Sir Samual Swinton Jacob. It is now a house of antiquities.When the foundation stone of Albert Hall was laid during the visit of the Prince of Wales, Albert Edward to Jaipur in 1876, it had yet to be determined what use it would be put to. There were some suggestions about cultural or educational use or as a town hall. However in 1880 Maharaja Sawai Madho Singh II approved a suggestion by Dr. Thomas Holbein Hendley, Resident Surgeon (whose interests extended beyond his medical responsibilities) to open a museum of Industrial Arts to display products of local craftsmen. A small museum was created in 1881 in temporary accommodation and proved most popular. Additionally, Hendley in 1883 mounted a Jaipur Exhibition at Naya Mahal (old Vidhan Sabha). The purpose of these exercises was to acquaint local craftsmen with the best examples of art work and handicrafts of India to inspire them to improve their skills, thereby protecting and preserving traditional art and reviving skills, while providing greater employment for artisans. It was also the intention that the display would help to educate youth in a wide variety of fields, entertain and inform the people of Jaipur.The Albert Hall was completed in 1887 by the architect Samuel Swinton Jacob,Director of Jaipur PWD. The temporary museum and the exhibition whose artefacts had been collected from several parts of India and its neighbourhood were merged and shifted to their permanent home in the new museum. The building itself became an integral part of the display, its Indo-Saracenic architecture and stone ornamentation, became a source of reference for varied classical Indian styles of design from Mughal to Rajput. Even the corridors were decorated with murals in a variety of styles including the Ramayan, reproducing paintings from illustrations in the Persian Razmnama prepared for Emperor Akbar. European, Egyptian, Chinese, Greek and Babylonian civilizations were portrayed in the other murals to enable the people of the region to compare and contrast them with their own and develop their knowledge of history and art.

Must SeeEdit

Must-see

Visiting TimeEdit

9.30 a.m to 4.30 p.m

Closed OnEdit

Friday

Best Season to VisitEdit

October and March.

Best Time To VisitEdit

Morning , Afternoon

Time Required for SightseeingEdit

60 minutes

Ticket Required : Yes Edit

Individual National Adult Rs. : Rs. 10

Kids Rs. : Rs.5

Individual Foreigner Adult Rs. : Rs.50

Kids Rs. : N.A.

Still Photo Camera Rs. : N.A.

Video Camera Rs. : N.A.

Guide Required : No Edit

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Dress Code (If Any) : No Edit

Dress Require: N.A.

Restaurants NearbyAdd / Edit

Chitra Cafe ; Hotel Arya Niwas | Behind Amber Tower, Sansar Chandra Road, Jaipur 302001 , India ; Ph/M – 91-141-2372456 ; Food Serve – Indian, Continental, Café, Pasta

How to ReachEdit

Taxi : Albert Hall (Central Museum), Jaipur can be accessed by Taxi. Taxis run on meter, and charges will hover around Rs 12 per kilometer.

Bus : Albert Hall (Central Museum) is well connected by motorable roads with major destinations of Jaipur city. Buses are easily available to Albert Hall (Central Museum) from any major destinations of Jaipur.

Train : The nearest railway station to reach Albert Hall is Jaipur Railway Station, Shanti Nagar, Hasanpura, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India which is located at a middel of city. After getting down at the railway station, take an auto-rickshaw, bus or hire a taxi to reach the destination within the city.

Air : The airport is situated close to Sanganer, almost 13 km to the south of Jaipur City. Domestic airlines connect the city to Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Agra, Jodhpur and Udaipur. The Jaipur airport also provides international flights to Dubai, London, Muscat and Sharjah. Taxis are available to and from airport. Air India, Indian Airlines, Jet Airways, etc. fly daily to Jaipur.

Others : Cycle rickshaws charge anywhere from Rs 10 to 30, but this mode of transport is very slow.

Things to CarryEdit

Plenty of Water and some food.

Safety / WarningEdit

Summer – light tropical or cotton Winter – Woollens
1. Double-check all hotel and restaurant bills for errors.
2. Don’t leave cash and valuables in your hotel room. Use room safes where available.
3. Keep daily cash in separate pockets.
4. Don’t flash jewellery or large sums of money.
5. Never pay for anything upfront – including drivers.