Museum Treasure

I love museums and I make it a point to visit the museums in the places that I travel to. If the museums are interactive and allow me to photograph their exhibits, particularly their more unusual ones, then they become my best friends.

This series is about the exhibits that caught my eye in the museums that allowed me to photograph them. 🙂

The minbar of Sultan Qa’itbay (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Gold, silver, copper, diamond (Sedgwick Museum of Geology, Cambridge)
The blue fireplace from Turkey (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Bust of Rameses II (British Museum, London)
The Jade Bull (British Museum, London)
The Shell Mosaic of Verulamium (The Museum of Everyday Life in Roman Britain, Verulamium)
The 3 Saraswatis (Museum at the Padmanabhapuram Palace Complex)
The golden throne of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
The Lachish Reliefs (British Museum, London)
The suit of spades (British Museum, London)
The gold helmet (British Museum, London)
The limestone door (British Museum, London)
Ulugh Beg’s Cup (British Museum, London)
Jewellery from Tamil Nadu (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
The Coffee Set (Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai)
The bearded Rama (Jaisalmer Fort Palace Museum, Jaisalmer)
Rama’s coronation (Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai)
The Holy Family (The Museum of Christian Art, Old Goa)
The 8 Shivas (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vaastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai)
The Silk Money of Khorezm (Ichon Kala, Khiva)
The Bhu-Varaha at the CSMVS sculpture gallery (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vaastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai)
Chintamani Lokeshvara (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vaastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai)
Vaikuntha Kamalaja (Dr. Ramnath A. Podar Haveli Museum, Nawalgarh)
The painted Vedas (Government Museum, Jhalawar)
Rati and Kamadeva (Government Museum, Bengaluru)
Sarcophagus of the mourning women (Istanbul Archaeological Museums, Istanbul)