National Art Gallery "of the Indian city of peace" Madras (Chennai) is a kind of center of the cultural life of this city. The book contains a large collection of sculptures and paintings created by Indian and British artists of different times.

The building, which is currently located gallery, was built in 1907 and was initially planned that there will be in the Victoria Memorial and the Technical Institute, but in 1951 it was turned into an art gallery. It is in itself a work of art of amazing beauty - built of red sandstone in the Indo-Saracenic style, replete with a mass of decorative items and ornaments in the form of towers, domes, carved friezes, moldings, columns and arches.

The gallery has a rich collection of bronze statues dating from the X-XIII centuries, the time of the Mughal painting (XVI-XVIII centuries), as well as a variety of crafts: jewelry, toys by Indian craftsmen XI-XII centuries. In general, the gallery is divided into numismatic, geological, anthropological, botanical and zoological section.

In the section reserved for bronze sculptures, you can see the wonderful figurines dancing Shiva and his wife Parvati, goddess, as well as Krishna in various ways, described in the myths. Some of these pieces really valuable and unique. As well as presented in the gallery prints Briton Thomas Daniels, which allows viewers to look at India as from the inside. In addition, the gallery is famous for miniature portraits of the great Indian rulers Akbar and Jahangir.

All these treasures of the National Art Gallery can be seen every day except Fridays and public holidays.