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The museum displays Indian musical instruments, Mughal miniatures, sculptures, textiles and objects from Japan, Tibet, Nepal, Egypt. The museum's artifacts were collected by Maharaja Sayajirao, devoted to travel. The Picture Gallery displays paintings by British artists, also from Sayajirao's private collection.
The Baroda Museum & Picture Gallery is an archeological and natural history museum in Baroda (Vadodara), Gujarat, India. It was built in 1894, modelled after the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Science Museum in London.
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Kamatibaug
Set on the banks of the Vishwamitri river, the garden is home to the Baroda Museum, the Sardar Patel Planetarium, and the Sayaji Baug Zoo. A toy train runs around the garden covering a distance of 3.5 km.
The pyramid-like building has four floors housing an amphitheatre, a planetarium chamber, an exhibition space and an observatory. Daily shows.
MSU
The world-famous Maharaja Sayajirao University has one of the largest campuses in Gujarat, full of beautiful historical buildings including Kala Bhavan, a former palace which is pictured in this article.
Temple of Fame
The cenotaph of the Maharajas of Baroda.
The oldest temple of the city.
The private mansion (Haveli) of a chief minister (diwan) of Baroda who lived during the last Mughal Empire. It's a wooden four-storey building notable for its miniature-style painted murals, depicting scenes from Lord Krishna’s life, from the Mahabharata, and from the Anglo-Maratha war. Tambekarwada is a heritage monument under the protection of the Archaeological Survey of India. Only a small part of the historical mansion is open to the public.