Government Museum (Bangalore) established in 1865 by the Mysore State with the guidance of Surgeon Edward Balfour who founded the museum in Madras and supported by the Chief Commissioner of Mysore, L.B. Bowring is one of the oldest museums in India and the second oldest museum in South India. It is now an Archaeological Museum and has a rare collection of archaeological and geological artifacts including old jewellery, sculpture, coins and inscriptions. The museum is also home to the Halmidi inscription, the earliest Kannada inscription ever found (450 AD).

The museum has two exhibition floors which are divided into 18 galleries. The galleries cover sections that span sculpture, natural history, geology, art, music and numismatics. The museum is an Archaeological Museum and has a rare collection of archaeological and geological artifacts including old jewellery, sculpture, coins and inscriptions. The museum has 70 paintings, 84 sculptures, and hundreds of other artifacts, some of which unique to the museum. The museum has sculpture from the Hoysala, Gandhara and Nolamba periods. Neolithic pottery from excavations carried out at Chandravalli, excavations artifacts from Mohenjodaro, Halebid and Vijayanagar, terracotta from Mathura and weapons from Kodagu. Many relics housed at the museum are as much as 5000 years old. The museum also houses rare paintings of Deccan, Mysore and Tanjore kingdoms are found. The museum has a model of Srirangapatna, the fort of Tipu Sultan. There is a slab in the museum from Tipu's times that has 12 persian couplets. The museum also showcases various old musical instruments. A Tanjore style framework of 64 Narayanas is a unique piece there. The priced collections of the Museum include the earliest Kannada inscription- the Halmidi inscription, Begur inscription, Aatakur inscriptional slabs are found in this museum.

The museum is flanked by the Visvesvaraya Industrial And Technological Museum and the Venkatappa Art gallery. The museum is located centrally on Kasturba road. The museum is built in 1877 in the neoclassical architectural style. It has two porticos on either side, Corinthian columns, circular arches, sloping eaves and prominent sloping parapet walls.

The two buildings one the Venkatappa art gallery and the other Archaeological Museum, give you a glimpse of the art and artists, past and present, and are also on display antiquities from the Indian subcontinent, right from 2000 BC to the medieval period. This place also hosts various photo and painting exhibitions. This place is dedicated to one of the great painters Venkatappa, who is born to a family with a lineage of painting. This great artisan works are displayed in one of the buildings at the ground floor. All his paintings and art work gives attention to the minutest of the details, be it the portrayal of Lord Shiva or the painting of the monsoon or the picturesque landscape. Every brush stroke reflects the creativity and dexterity of this great artist.

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