Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c16.s1.t3.3

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built in Italian style and was completed in 1875. Later on, it was expanded with rising number of collections. It has six sections: art, archaeology, anthropology, geology, zoology and botany, 35 galleries and more than 1,00,000 items. The mansion is a two-storey building, with a square atrium in it. The first floor contains: 1. Main Entrance; 2. Bharhut Gallery, showing the gate and fence of Bharhut stupa excavated in 1875; 3. Gandhara Gallery; 4. Buddhism Gallery; 5. Hinduism and Jainism Gallery; 6. Bronze Gallery; 7. Southeast Asian Gallery; 8. Maurya Historic Gallery; 9. Pre and Proto Historic Gallery; and, 10. Music Instrument Gallery. The second floor has: 1. Folk Painting Gallery; 2. Dyeing and Craft Gallery (pottery, ivory carving, wood engraving, silverware); 3. Zoology Gallery; 4. Economic Botany Gallery; 5. Fossil Gallery; and, 6. Geology Gallery. It is the largest museum in Asia that displays the world's most important geological collections. It has an extraordinary store of ancient coins having more than 50,000 in numbers and have been arranged chronologically. There is also an Egypt Gallery where mummies are exhibited, galleries for tribal life and works of art as well as paintings and ancient hand-drawn maps.