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The Story
OrganizerOver the first half of the twentieth century Salar Jung III devoted his fortune to collecting art and artefacts from across the world, filling his Hyderabad palace with sculpture, paintings, clocks, textiles and rare objects. After his death in 1949 the collection was given to the nation and opened as a museum in 1951, later moving to a purpose-built building on the Musi river. It remains one of India's most visited museums and a monument to a singular passion for collecting.
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Cultural Significance
▾The Salar Jung Museum preserves one of the world's most remarkable one-man collections, a cross-cultural treasury that makes Hyderabad a major centre of museum heritage and reflects the cosmopolitan collecting culture of the princely era.