Baroda Museum & Picture Gallery
Located
in the popular Sayaji Bagh, the museum houses a collection which belonged to
the former maharaja Sayaji Rao Gaekwad. Indian rulers during the Raj often collected
all kinds of European art and other knick knacks.
Largely being the personal collection of the maharaja, the exhibits span across
centuries and continents, as well as diverse art forms. There are Greek and
Roman sculpture with European paintings of earlier periods. Asian section has
items from Burma, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, China and Japan made of wood, ivory,
bronze and pottery.
The Indian art section is a line collection of ancient objects. There is a bronze
jar
circa 2nd century AD, perhaps associated with the Graeco-Roman trading
with India around Gujarat in pre historic times. There are painted manuscripts
from Rajasthan school, a Ragamala series and family portraits.
Baroda Museum and Picture Gallery
Sayaji Park Vadodara
Timing: 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
Closed on Mondays and government holidays
