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Storia dell'artigianato, note sugli oggetti della collezione e guide su cos'altro vale la pena vedere a Jaipur. I testi sono firmati dal curatore che li ha scritti.
La rivista del Gyan Museum è scritta dai curatori del museo a Jaipur. Tratta le tecniche alla base della gioielleria e della lavorazione dei metalli del Rajasthan, gli oggetti della collezione del museo di 2.500 pezzi, e guide ai musei e all'artigianato della città. Gli articoli riportano un autore nominato e una data. Il museo stesso è aperto dal lunedì al sabato solo su appuntamento anticipato.
26 August 2026
Amber, Nahargarh and Jaigarh take a day. This is what the city has for the days after — craft, water architecture, printing, astronomy and the collections nobody queues for.
Di Gyan Museum · The museum · 3 min di lettura · In inglese
26 August 2026
An itinerary that assumes you arrived last night and leave the day after tomorrow. Ordered by heat, traffic and opening times rather than by importance.
Di Gyan Museum · The museum · 3 min di lettura · In inglese
26 August 2026
Four words used constantly in Jaipur and almost always loosely. Each names an operation performed by a different hand, in a fixed order, and none of them is a style.
Di Gyan Museum · The museum · 3 min di lettura · In inglese
26 August 2026
Eight museums in one city, and what each one is actually for. A guide written by one of them, which is a reason to read it carefully and a reason it tries to be fair.
Di Gyan Museum · The museum · 5 min di lettura · In inglese
26 August 2026
Hoysala and Vijayanagara gold: coins the size of a lentil, struck with a punch, carrying a whole iconography. How to look at something four millimetres across.
Di Gyan Museum · The museum · 3 min di lettura · In inglese
26 August 2026
The mouthpiece is the part that touched a person. That is why it was made of silver and enamel and rubies, why it was carried, and why a collection of them can be a collection at all.
Di Gyan Museum · The museum · 3 min di lettura · In inglese
5 November 2025
Marwar struck its own coinage for more than two centuries, in mints at Jodhpur, Nagaur, Pali and Sojat. This entry reads the coins in the museum's numismatics gallery as documents of a kingdom rather than as bullion.
Di Adib Rizvi · Curator · 2 min di lettura · In inglese
23 September 2025
Sixteen gold enamelled Shrinathji pendants and twenty miniature Ganga pendants painted on wasli. Devotional jewellery made to be worn, and read at arm's length.
Di Nikita Sharma · Curator · 2 min di lettura · In inglese
16 September 2025
A Buddha, a marriage bowl, a Ming urn bottle with a dragon in relief, a plaque with three deer. Why a collector of Rajasthani jewellery kept buying Chinese jade.
Di Nikita Sharma · Curator · 1 min di lettura · In inglese
4 September 2025
Kundan, meenakari, polki, thewa, jadau. What Rajasthan's jewellery techniques actually are, where each was made, and how to tell them apart in a case.
Di Nikita Sharma · Curator · 2 min di lettura · In inglese
16 August 2025
Nineteenth-century Sanjhi stencils in the collection. A devotional paper-cut tradition from Mathura and Vrindavan, made to be used once on water and then thrown away.
Di Nikita Sharma · Curator · 1 min di lettura · In inglese
31 July 2025
Karni Bharni — 'as you do, so you receive'. An illustrated Jain manuscript tradition that sets out the results of actions, held in the museum's Jainism gallery.
Di Adib Rizvi · Curator · 1 min di lettura · In inglese
11 March 2019
Wasli, squirrel-hair brushes, ground mineral pigment and burnishing from behind. How a Rajasthani miniature is actually made, and what to look for in one.
Di Adib Rizvi · Curator · 1 min di lettura · In inglese
Gli oggetti trattati qui sono conservati al Gyan Museum a Sitapura, Jaipur. Il museo è aperto dal lunedì al sabato solo su appuntamento anticipato, e una visita è guidata da un curatore.
