Salar Jung Museum and Nijam's Jewellery Exhibition !

Hey,
Welcome to the world of Nizams of Hyderabad......our journey begins now...:)
Museum ....no way sudhir...are u gone mad...i m not coming.! are the words i heard when i asked my roommates and wipro mates to come to "Salar Jung Museum".
One day, one frd of mine asked "sudhir r u interested in coming to museum" i said yes instantly..! so thts how our journey started....and i dont want to go into details how we reached thr..it was drizzling tht day and the weather was awesome..!
The museum is quite big and have excellent collection of ancient items like ivory work, paintings, carpets, sculptures, arms, jewellery etc.......
first we entered the "room for ivory collection".....and i liked "Carpet" woven out of Ivory and carving of elephants in ascending order on single tusk of elephant,Swords,daggers etc.
I also came to know ivory does not only mean work on Elephant's tusk..!
the mastery with which the work has been performed is really good !
then we saw paintings and oil paintings looked almost real and the serenity on the face of one of the lady in painting was realy good, one sculpture which looks like a man from front and its image in the mirror is that of a girl ( fantastically done ) , To do mastery it requires time ,once its done it becomes treasure for the life time.
Aurangzab's mighty sword, his dress and other arms of ancient time were feast for the eyes :)
The harbinger of death one time now a piece of antique..time plays cruel games indeed..!
A clock made of 350 parts was centre of attraction for the kids.
After Salar Jung we went to see Nijam's Jewellery collection and while entering i felt like i m going inside a military camp, soldiers with machine guns, high profile chking etc.......finally we landed in the room whr the collection was kept....!
we saw "Jacob Diamond" cost 400 croress only ! , and diamonds, emaralds rubies were present everywhere and the jewels were shining reminding us of our glorious ancient past
saying to me hello do u like us....we r the reasons for rise and fall of many kingdoms ....
though it was only a glimpse of wt has been left by Britishers...and other invaders....the reminiscents are plenty enough to prove the prosperity,mettle of ancient india !