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Craft history, notes on objects in the collection, and guides to what else is worth seeing in Jaipur. Entries are signed by the curator who wrote them.
The Gyan Museum journal is written by the museum's curators in Jaipur. It covers the techniques behind Rajasthani jewellery and metalwork, objects in the museum's collection of 2,500 pieces, and guides to the city's museums and craft. Entries carry a named author and a date. The museum itself is open Monday to Saturday by prior appointment.
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.
By Gyan Museum · The museum · 3 min read
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.
By Gyan Museum · The museum · 3 min read
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.
By Gyan Museum · The museum · 3 min read
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.
By Gyan Museum · The museum · 5 min read
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.
By Gyan Museum · The museum · 3 min read
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.
By Gyan Museum · The museum · 3 min read
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.
By Adib Rizvi · Curator · 2 min read
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.
By Nikita Sharma · Curator · 2 min read
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.
By Nikita Sharma · Curator · 1 min read
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.
By Nikita Sharma · Curator · 2 min read
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.
By Nikita Sharma · Curator · 1 min read
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.
By Adib Rizvi · Curator · 1 min read
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.
By Adib Rizvi · Curator · 1 min read
The objects discussed here are held at Gyan Museum in Sitapura, Jaipur. The museum is open Monday to Saturday by prior appointment only, and a visit is guided by a curator.
