Why have been red fort and Victoria memorial converted to museum
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The government will open four new museums at Delhi’s Red Fort in August, The Times of India reported on Sunday. The project is an initiative of the Union Ministry of Culture.
“The idea is to develop Red Fort as a museum hub,” said Culture Secretary Raghavendra Singh. “The barracks [built by the British] are three floors high and have teakwood panelling, wooden floors and large staircases. Now they will have thematic representations of Indian history.”
The first museum will contain original archival material and replicas related to the 1857 mutiny. Seventy original, nearly a century-old, paintings depicting the Indian uprising against the British East India Company will also be on display. Singh said that some of the exhibits will be borrowed from other museums like Victoria Memorial Museum in Kolkata.