Museum
The museum is set up in the Queen Victoria memorial institute buildings located in Jubilee Garden, Rajkot. The museum was named in fond memory of Colonel John Watson in 1888 who was a British political agent of Kathiawar Agency from 1881 to 1889. Watson Museum is the second most important museum in Gujarat, after the Museum of Baroda and is the oldest museum in Saurashtra (region). Colonel Watson was fond of history and archaeology and used to collect information on Rajkot. Most of his collections and other artifacts are preserved here. The museum building was completed in 1893, and opened to the public by Governor Lord George Harris of Bombay Presidency.
Watson Museum
While the museum's archeology gallery also boasts of artifacts of prehistoric period and the Harappan civilization in the archeology gallery, a treasure of sculptures belonging to erstwhile Ghumali - a capital of Jethwa - grace the sculpture gallery
Sections
The statue of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen Victoria, unveiled by H.E. the Lord Curzon of Kedleston in 1897
=> Sculptures
=> Paintings and Manuscripts
=> Textile
=> Inscription
=> Coins [3]
=> Anthropology
=>. Folk Embroidery
=> Handicraft
=> Musical Instruments
=> Wood Work
=> Natural History
=> Rocks and Minerals
MapAddress : Dhebar Road, Lohana Para, Rajkot, Gujarat 360007
Timing : 9:00 AM to 12:45 PM
3:00 PM to 6:00 PM,
Closed : Wednesday, 2nd and 4th
Saturday and Government Public Holiday
Attractions : Artefacts of prehistoric period, sculptures, anthropology,
folk embroidery, handicraft, musical instruments, wood work,
natural history and rocks and minerals
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