The palace museum has a
wonderful collection of exhibits, reflecting the tastes and the personal
wealth of the Maharajas of Alwar. There are some excellent manuscripts
here including an illustrated Mahabharata on a 200 feet long scroll, made
from a single length of paper with writing so tiny that has to be read
with the help of a magnifying glass and other rare manuscripts in Persian,
Arabic Urdu and Sanskrit. Gulistan (garden of roses), Bostan (garden of
spring) and the Waqiat -i- Babri, are notables ones. Rajput and Mughal
paintings dating back to the 18th and the 19th centuries can be seen too.
A rich collection of the armory is among the other exhibits of the museum.
The palace museum has a
wonderful collection of exhibits, reflecting the tastes and the personal
wealth of the Maharajas of Alwar. There are some excellent manuscripts
here including an illustrated Mahabharata on a 200 feet long scroll, made
from a single length of paper with writing so tiny that has to be read
with the help of a magnifying glass and other rare manuscripts in Persian,
Arabic Urdu and Sanskrit. Gulistan (garden of roses), Bostan (garden of
spring) and the Waqiat -i- Babri, are notables ones. Rajput and Mughal
paintings dating back to the 18th and the 19th centuries can be seen too.
A rich collection of the armory is among the other exhibits of the museum.