Museums, Hyderabad

The largest single man's collection in the world.This is a treasure house of art and antiques collected by Mir Yousef Ali Khan Salar Jung III(1889 TO 1949), the Prime Minister of the seventh Nizam of Hyderabad.The Museum has 40,000 objects of world art comprising Indian Art,Middle eastern art,Far eastern and European art and sculptor.The interesting one is that of veiled Rebecca,a marble statue of a woman in veil.The library over here has over has 43,000 articles and 50,000 books and rare manuscripts of Arabic,Urdu and Persian.
Entry fee Rs.10 for Indians and Rs.150 for non-Indians.
Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,closed on Fridays and public holidays
p.s.:try and be at the center of the museum where there is a clock by noon,when there is a specatacular doll play when the clock stikes 12

The Museum displays the gifts and mementoes presented to the last Nizam of Hyderabad - Mir Osman Ali Khan,on the occassion of the silver Jubilee celebration in the year 1936.The Museum offers a lot of notable items like gold burnished wooden throne used for silver jubilee celebrations,a gold model of the Jubilee Pavillion,a tiffin box made of gold and diamonds and the wardrobe of the VI Nizam of Hyderabad.
Timings: 9.30 a.m. -- 4.30 p.m.(closed on Fridays)
Entry fee-- Rs.65 for adults and Rs.15 for children

Hyderabad has some great museum and this is most evident in the Salar Jung Museum. The museum has a huge collection and its exhibits are from all over the world. Some of the relics date back to the 1st century and the collection includes sculptures, woodcarvings and Persian paintings, manuscripts as well as weapons and thousands of books. It ended up being a fantastic afternoon and I highly recommend it :)

Salarjung museum, it is near to the ols city, on the way to charminar. It has some very good collections. Do not miss the vieled rebecca, it is the star of collections there. since it is a single person collection, you can see a certain taste to art prominent.

State museum in public gardens, it is next to the state assembly. It has lil collection compared to the salarjung museum.

Must absolutely visit the Salarjung Museum, Falaknuma Palace, have food in any of the irani hotels and see a Hindi movie in a cineplex. Some of the things that would truly let you see the culture, lingo and carefree attitude of the hyderabadi's.

Salar Jung Museum
The third largest museum in India, the artifacts are kept in 36 huge halls, painstakingly collected by Mir Yusaf Ali Khan, (Salar Jung III), the prime minister of Nizam of Hyderabad.
It contains over 35,000 exhibits as varied as Persian carpets, wood carvings, miniatures, armory and clothing. The Jade Room has swords, daggers and clothing of Mughal emperors and Tipu Sultan. The museum is open every day except Friday

A must see for all. It is the largest private collection by a single person in the entire world. Devote atleast one day for this visit.