Jaipur
: Central Museum
(or Albert Hall Museum)
Situated
in the spacious and beautiful Ram Niwas Garden, the museum has a rare
collection of art facts and craft items such as metalwork, ivory carvings,
cane wood articles and exquisite pieces of jewellery, textile, pottery and
paintings.
It is particularly rich in specimen of embossed,
hammered and chiselled brass wares.
The building was designed by
Colonel Sir Swinton Jacob in the modern Indo-Saracenic style and was built
in 1886 A.D. when King Edward VII visited as the Prince of Wales.Special
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