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New Delhi, India 

National Museum of India

Janpath
New Delhi 110 011
India

Tel.: +910113018415 and +91 01 3019272 and +91 01 3019 237

E-mail: rdchoudh@ndf.vsnl.net.in

http://www.nationalmuseumindia.org

The National Museum of India was established in 1949 and is today the country's premier Museum. A must to visit.

The anthropological collection in the National Museum includes nearly 10,000 objects of ethnographic interest.

A considerable number of objects came as gift from various states and the union territories between the late 1950s and 1960s as the result of offical expeditions. The acquisition of private collections of anthroplogical significance have also added to the collection. In 1964-65 about 2000 objects of tribal art and crafts were acquired by the Museum from the collection of Dr. V. Elwin who collected the materials from Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Orissa in the late thirties and later on from Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland.

In 1980, an important private collection of 300 musical instruments was acquired from Sharan Rani Backliwal, a leading sarod master.

More items have been purchased by the Museum from private dealers. The collection, classified and documented, includes headgears, footwears, dresses, ornaments, musical instruments, terracottas, scroll paintings, santhal paintings, Madhubani paintings, wood carvings, masks, weapons, metal images, leather puppets and a variety of other objects used in daily life.

No list of Andamanese items held by the National Museum of India is available. 

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