National Gallery of Modern Art Mumbai

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Why Go: Established in 1954, Mumbai\'s National Gallery of Modern Art holds the country\'s richest collection of modern art. Housed in a building that once served as the palace of the Maharaja of Jaipur, the gallery\'s collection of 17,000 works includes paintings, sculptures, graphics and photography from 1850 onwards. The National Gallery of Modern Art showcases works by both 19th century Indian artists like Raja Ravi Varma, modern and post-colonial masters like Rabindranath Tagore, Tayyabb Mehta and M.F. Husain. In addition, the National Gallery traces the development of artistic practises throughout India\'s major art centres, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Baroda, Santiniketan and Delhi, which reveal fascinating regional differences as well as national continuity. In particular, visitors have the opportunity to explore the artistic discourses of the 19th and 20th centuries, as art intersected with major historical movements from colonialism to independence. The art of this period thus transiti



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