page_title: National Museum, New Delhi
section_title: Miniature Paintings Gallery
hierarchical_section_title: National Museum, New Delhi / Collections / Miniature Paintings Gallery
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of the Mughal Miniature Paintings
context_page_description: The National Museum in New Delhi, also known as the National Museum of India, is one of the largest museums in India. Established in 1949, it holds a variety of articles ranging from pre-historic era to modern works of art. It functions under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The museum is situated on Janpath. The blue–print of the National Museum had been prepared by the Gwyer Committee set up by the Government of India in 1946. The museum has around 200,000 works of art, both of Indian and foreign origin, covering over 5,000 years.
  It also houses the National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology on the first floor which was established in 1983 and now is a Deemed to be University since 1989, and runs Masters and Doctoral level courses in History of Art, Conservation and Museology.
context_section_description: Miniature paintings, on paper, cloth, bark, wood and ivory, forms one of the National Museum’s most prestigious collections, and the world’s largest. There are over 17,000 paintings in the Department of Painting in the National Museum, spanning 900 years and most stylistic formats to be found in India: Pala, early Jain style, Sultanate, the indigenous styles of Malwa, Mewar, Bundelkhand, Raghogarh, Mughal, Deccani, later Rajasthani, Pahari, Sikh, Jammu, Tanjore and Mysore, and the Company School paintings.
caption: View of the Mughal Miniature paintings section
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