7. Write a paragraph (within 100 words) 'A visit to the Museum,
| Hintas introduction Indian Museum Kolkata - housed in a big building
several gallanes prehistoric arms, coins of different age, status zoological
ancient pots store house of knowledge educative
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Every time I walk along the Chowringhee, northward from Park Street, past the metro, the air begins to swell with the chants of wild hawkers, flute sellers, palmist thugs and beggars. And then suddenly, I find stretching across on my right, in slight Greek style, silent and sage-like, the crisp white pillars of the Indian Museum. If you turn right into Sudder Street, the museum extends half way down, the white building succeeded by one in red brick constructed much later in 1914.
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The Indian Museum, Kolkata, is one of the earliest museums in the world. It owes its origin to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, where the collections first began to be acquired in 1814. Nathaniel Wallich, a Danish botanist, is credited with being the founder-curator of the museum. The museum was completed and opened for public display in 1875. Covering a frontage of 312 feet, it was designed by W. L. Granville, who also planned the GPO and the High Court in Calcutta. Its establishment is closely linked to the upsurge of early modernist movements like the Brahmo Samaj and the setting up of pioneering educational centres.
Spread along three floors, the museum houses the Archaeological, Art, Anthropological, Geological, Industrial and Zoological sections. Entering it from the main gate, and having deposited my bag outside, I am greeted by the half-giant figures of yakshas, placed like dwarpaals (doorkeepers). Any visitor will casually meander among these and more figures only to reach a map of the ground floor. A large quadrangle surrounding an open turfed space is placed centrally, around which are arranged the various sections on three floors. All along the outer colonnade skirting the quadrangle are sculptures, lintels and intricate pilasters. It often happens that, as the afternoon light merges into dusk, these figures change moods. You might have looked at a lion-faced gargoyle many times before, but only at that precise moment of fading winter light, you discover a jarring new perspective.
Walking along the second floor, in the east verandah, hallucinating thus in conversation with the sculptured ghosts of the Sunga dynasty (2nd century BC), the Buddhas, and the protean avatars of
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1914
Explanation:
Every time I walk along the Chowringhee, northward from Park Street, past the metro, the air begins to swell with the chants of wild hawkers, flute sellers, palmist thugs and beggars. And then suddenly, I find stretching across on my right, in slight Greek style, silent and sage-like, the crisp white pillars of the Indian Museum. If you turn right into Sudder Street, the museum extends half way down, the white building succeeded by one in red brick constructed much later in 1914.