Back সরকারি জাদুঘর, চেন্নাই Bengali/Bangla Government Museum (Chennai) German Gobernuaren Museoa (Chennai) Basque Musée gouvernemental de Madras French Museum Pemerintah, Chennai ID Muzium Kerajaan, Chennai Malay அரசு அருங்காட்சியகம், சென்னை Tamil గవర్నమెంట్ మ్యూజియం, చెన్నై Tegulu
 Museum Theatre, the front façade of the Government Museum, Chennai | |
   Government Museum, Chennai (Tamil Nadu) | |
| Established | 1851 |
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| Location | Egmore, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Coordinates | 13°04′16″N 80°15′25″E / 13.0711°N 80.2569°E |
| Type | Art museum, History museum |
| Collection size | 1.7 million |
| Visitors | 602,345 (2018) |
| Owner | Ministry of Culture, Government of India |
| Public transit access | Chennai Egmore (Suburban) Egmore |
| Website | www |
The Government Museum, Chennai, or the Madras Museum, is a museum of human history and culture located in the Government Museum Complex in the neighbourhood of Egmore in Chennai, India. Started in 1851, it is the second oldest museum in India after the Indian Museum in Kolkata. It is particularly rich in archaeological and numismatic collections. It has among the largest collection of Roman antiquities outside Europe, peculiarly in the numismatics field, and is very likely the most richly endowed museum in Asia (outside Western Asia) concerning this civilisation.[1] Among them, the colossal Museum Theatre is one of the most impressive.[2] The National Art Gallery is also present in the museum premises. Built in Indo-Saracenic style, it houses rare European and Asian painting of renowned artists, including that of Raja Ravi Varma.[3][4] It had 0.6 million visitors in 2018. It has the richest collections of bronze idols, 500 of them dating to 1000 BCE, in Asia.[5]
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