AN INITIATIVE OF CRAFT REVIVAL TRUST.  Since 1999
Jagdish & Kamala Mittal Museum of Indian Art

Jagdish & Kamala Mittal Museum of Indian Art

Jagdish & Kamala Mittal Museum of Indian Art

1-2-214/6, Gagan Mahal Road
Hyderabad, Telangana
India 500 029

M: 91-40-27631561, 6550 1700

E: [email protected]; [email protected]

W: www.mittalmuseum.com

The ‘Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art’, Hyderabad, owes its name to the collection 28 of Indian art assembled over sixty years by the artist couple, Jagdish Mittal and his wife, Kamla. On 30th March, 1976, they created an irrevocable Public Trust named Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art, to set up a Museum in the twin cities Hyderabad and Secunderabad.

A large number of art objects of the Museum have been lent for display at the prestigious Festival of India exhibitions held in London (1982), U.S.A. (1985), and France (1986), as well as exhibitions held in the National Museum, New Delhi, and Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad (1986).

About the collection: The Museum’s collection specializes in traditional arts and crafts of the Indian subcontinent up to 1900 A.D. and consists of around 1580 objects which include: miniature paintings (570), drawings (250), manuscripts (5), calligraphy (1 8), folk and classical bronzes (360), terracottas (21), ivory figures (1 3), jade (10) objects, metalware (252), textiles (25), arms and armour 111) and artistic handicrafts (35). There are also several select examples of Nepali and Tibetan thankas (8) and metal images (3). The Museum is particularly rich in miniatures with representative examples, spanning a period from about 1200 A.D. to the end of the 19th century, including all the important schools like the Western Indian or Gujarati, Rajasthani, Sultanate, Mughal, Pahari or Punjab Hills, Central Indian, Deccani, South Indian, Bengal and Orissa, as well as select specimens from the Folk Style and Company period works. They represent almost every regional centre of these schools, and are as commendable for their aesthetic quality and art historical significance as they are for their subject matter.

Crucial to the study of Indian painting are the 250 drawings which give a deeper insight and clearer idea of the Mughal, Deccani, Rajasthani and Pahari schools.