SREE CHITRA ART GALLERY
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Location : Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Houses : Paintings By Raja Ravi Varma
Open on : All Days Except Wednesday And Friday Mornings
Timings : 10am. to 5pm

Located in the Napier Museum grounds, Sree Chitra Art Gallery displays select
Paintings of Raja Ravi Varma, Svetlova and Nicholas Roerich and exquisite works
from the Rajput, Mughal and Tanjore schools of art in India. The collection
also includes paintings from China, Japan, Tibet and Bali. 

The art gallery housed in a traditional building next to Napier Museum, houses
the collections of the Travancore ruling family, and include an interesting
assortment of turn-of-the-century Bengali school paintings, and Rajasthani and
Mughal miniatures. 

Kerala's favorite artist son, Raja Ravi Varma's works include a number of
portraits of kings and their families, British residents and distinguished
individuals. 

The paintings are so life like that one can easily get a glimpse of a part of
Kerala's history, by looking at them. 

Timings
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It is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. except on Wednesday and Mondays mornings. 

