Salar Jung Museum, National art museum in Nayapul, Hyderabad, India.
Salar Jung Museum is a national art museum at Dar-ul-Shifa on the southern bank of the Musi River in Hyderabad. Its semicircular building, designed by Mohammed Fayazuddin, holds 38 galleries over two floors: 20 on the ground floor and 18 on the first. The cream-walled facade has a corner tower topped by a ribbed grey dome above a tall arched window.
The museum opened in 1951 after Nawab Mir Yousuf Ali Khan donated his private collection of international artworks and antiquities to the Indian nation. The collection was assembled over three generations of the Salar Jung family during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The museum's miniature paintings come from the Mughal, Rajasthani, Thanjavur, Malwa and Deccan schools; the Golconda school is represented by a painting of Jamshed Quli and Ibrahim Quli in conversation, and the Bijapur school by Elephants in a Fight. Manuscripts include a 12th-century Qur'an copy by Yaqut al-Musta'simi.
The museum is closed on Fridays and opens from 10 AM to 5 PM on other days. Photography and video without flash are allowed with prior permission, and tickets can be bought online through the official website. The building is semicircular with 20 galleries on the ground floor and 18 on the first floor.
A 19th-century mechanical clock featuring life-size figures chimes on the hour and draws crowds of visitors each day. The collection also holds a famous dagger with a moving handle that once belonged to a Mughal emperor.
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