The National Museum, New Delhi, was inaugurated on 15 August 1949 at Rashtrapati Bhavan by C. Rajagopalachari, then Governor-General of India. The first phase of its permanent building on Janpath was inaugurated on 18 December 1960 by Vice President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
The museum is under the administrative control of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Its collection holds about 200,000 objects covering more than five thousand years, including archaeology, decorative arts, manuscripts, miniature paintings, numismatics, textiles, and Central Asian and Pre-Columbian art.
The National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology, which offers master's and doctoral programmes, is housed on the museum's first floor. The museum is at Janpath, New Delhi 110011.
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