Garden carpet
Persian treasure.
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Rajasthan's oldest museum and its state museum, in a grand Indo-Saracenic building that blends Mughal, Rajput and European architecture, designed by the engineer Samuel Swinton Jacob and opened as a public museum in 1887. The building stands in Ram Niwas Garden outside the old city wall, with domes, balconies and decorated arches; it was renovated in 2008 into one of India's most modern museums and is lit at night like a palace from a fairy tale. Its galleries hold a wide range of art and crafts: carpets, including a Persian garden carpet that is one of the museum's great treasures, pottery, metalwork, arms, textiles, miniature paintings, jewellery and antiquities from ancient civilisations. Foreign visitors pay about ₹600, per visitor guides, and it's on the composite ticket. The building looks best after sunset when it is lit up, and the garden around it is pleasant for a stroll.
Persian treasure.
Indo-Saracenic.
Around it.
Ram Niwas Garden, outside the city wall, Jaipur
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