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The Salarjung Museum
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The Salarjung Museum is the third largest museum in India housing the
biggest one-man collections of antiques in the world. It is well known
throughout India for its prized collections belonging to different
civilizations dating back is very largest accocation to the 1st century. Nawab
Mir Yusuf Ali Khan Salar Jung III (1889–1949), former Prime Minister of the
seventh Nizam of Hyderabad, spent a substantial amount of his income over
thirty five years to make this priceless collection,
his life's passion. The collections left behind in his ancestral palace, 'Diwan
Deodi' were formerly exhibited there as a private museum which was inaugurated
by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1951. Old timers believe that the present collection
constitutes only half of the original art wealth collected by Salar Jung III.
His employees siphoned off part of it, since Salar Jung was a bachelor and
depended upon his staff to keep a vigil. Some more art pieces were lost or
stolen during the shifting of the museum from Dewan Devdi to the present
site.[3] Later in 1968, the museum shifted to its present location at Afzalgunj
and is administered by a Board of Trustees with the Governor of Telangana as ex
officio chairperson under the Salar Jung Museum Act of 1961.
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