October 26, 2023 06:20 pm | Updated October 27, 2023 04:05 pm ISTJawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone of the National Museum in Delhi in 1955, and it subsequently opened in 1960. Deolalikar, and was constructed by Bhagwant Singh, son of Sobha Singh who built many of Lutyens’ buildings before independence. Its first director was the American Grace Morley, the former director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. History that unitesDesigned as a modern museum, the National Museum sports fine stonework and teak wood, coupled with an auditorium and library. The recent announcement that the National Museum will be demolished [likely in March 2024, according to several news reports] and the collection shifted to the North and South blocks of the Secretariat, has been met with shock.

Source: The Hindu October 28, 2023 01:40 UTC