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Specialty Museum Attractions In Uttar Pradesh

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Uttar Pradesh is a state in northern India. Abbreviated as UP, it is the most populous state in the Republic of India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. The densely populated state, located in the northern region of the Indian subcontinent, has over 200 million inhabitants. It was created on 1 April 1937 as the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh during British rule, and was renamed Uttar Pradesh in 1950. The state is divided into 18 divisions and 75 districts with the capital being Lucknow. The main ethnic group is the Hindavi people, forming the demographic plurality. On 9 November 2000, a new state, Uttarakhand, was carved ...
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Specialty Museum Attractions In Uttar Pradesh

  • 1. The Residency Lucknow
    The Residency, also called as the British Residency and Residency Complex, is a group of several buildings in a common precinct in the city of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. It served as the residence for the British Resident General who was a representative in the court of the Nawab. The Residency is located in the heart of the city, in the vicinity of other monuments like Shaheed Smarak, Tehri Kothi and High Court Building. It was constructed during the rule of Nawab Saadat Ali Khan II, who was the fifth Nawab of the province of Awadh . Construction took place between 1780 and 1800 AD. Between 1 July 1857 and 17 November 1857 the Residency was subject to the Siege of Lucknow, part of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The Residency now exists as ruins.
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  • 3. Bharat Kala Bhavan Varanasi
    Bharat Kala Bhavan is an art and archeological museum located in Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. It has been instrumental in collecting art and is one the important touristic attractions in the Banaras Hindu University and in Varanasi city.
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  • 9. Railway Museum Gorakhpur
    The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, also known as the DHR or Toy Train, is a 2 ft narrow-gauge railway based on zig zag and loop-line technology which runs between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal. Built between 1879 and 1881, with six zig-zags and five loops, the railway is about 88 km long. Its elevation varies from about 100 m at New Jalpaiguri to about 2,200 m at Darjeeling. Although four diesel locomotives handle most scheduled service, the daily tourist trains and steam-enthusiast specials are hauled by vintage British-built B-Class steam locomotives. The railway's headquarters are in Kurseong. On 2 December 1999, UNESCO declared the DHR a World Heritage Site. Two more railway lines were later added, and the site became known as the mountain railways of ...
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  • 10. State Museum Lucknow
    The State Museum in Lucknow was earlier situated in the Chattar Manzil and the Lai Baradari. It was shifted during the year 1963 to the new building in Lucknow Zoo .Initially, there was a collection of Awadh arts and contemporary objects of Awadh. Later, it was expanded to include many excavated antiquities from nearby places of Lucknow, particularly where the Lord Buddha grew up. Today, the Museum has become a centre of Lucknow sculpture, bronzes, paintings, natural history, etc. It contains an Egyptian mummy and a wooden sarcophagus, as well. It is a four-story building.
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  • 12. Spiritual Museum Agra
    The Masnavi, or Masnavi-i Ma'navi , also written Mesnevi, Mathnawi, or Mathnavi, is an extensive poem written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi also known as Rumi, the celebrated Persian Sufi poet. It is one of the best known and most influential works of Sufism. The Masnavi is a series of six books of poetry that together amount to around 25,000 verses or 50,000 lines. It is a spiritual text that teaches Sufis how to reach their goal of being truly in love with God.
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  • 13. Buddha Museum Kushinagar
    Gautama Buddha , also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was a monk , mendicant, and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in the northeastern part of ancient India sometime between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE.Gautama taught a Middle Way between sensual indulgence and the severe asceticism found in the śramaṇa movement common in his region. He later taught throughout other regions of eastern India such as Magadha and Kosala.Gautama is the primary figure in Buddhism. He is believed by Buddhists to be an enlightened teacher who attained full Buddhahood and shared his insights to help sentient beings end rebirth and suffering. Accounts of his life, discourses and monasti...
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  • 14. Allahabad Museum Allahabad
    Allahabad Fort is a fort built by the Mughal emperor Akbar at Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India in 1583. The fort stands on the banks of the Yamuna near its confluence with the river Ganges. It is recognised by the Archaeological Survey of India as a monument of national importance.
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