館刊

來自展廳的文字

工藝史、館藏藏品筆記，以及 Jaipur 還有什麼值得看的指南。條目由撰寫的策展人署名。

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• 26 August 2026

  Beyond the forts: Jaipur once you have seen Amber

  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.

  作者 Gyan Museum · The museum · 3 分鐘閱讀 · 英文

• 26 August 2026

  Jaipur in two days

  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.

  作者 Gyan Museum · The museum · 3 分鐘閱讀 · 英文

• 26 August 2026

  Kundan, meenakari, thewa, polki: what the words mean

  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.

  作者 Gyan Museum · The museum · 3 分鐘閱讀 · 英文

• 26 August 2026

  The museums of Jaipur: an honest comparison

  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.

  作者 Gyan Museum · The museum · 5 分鐘閱讀 · 英文

• 26 August 2026

  Reading India's smallest coins

  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.

  作者 Gyan Museum · The museum · 3 分鐘閱讀 · 英文

• 26 August 2026

  The hookah as an object of luxury

  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.

  作者 Gyan Museum · The museum · 3 分鐘閱讀 · 英文

• 5 November 2025

  The legacy of Marwar coins

  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.

  作者 Adib Rizvi · Curator · 2 分鐘閱讀 · 英文

• 23 September 2025

  Enamelled Shrinathji and Ganga pendants

  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.

  作者 Nikita Sharma · Curator · 2 分鐘閱讀 · 英文

• 16 September 2025

  Collecting East Asian antiques: Gyan ji's jade

  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.

  作者 Nikita Sharma · Curator · 1 分鐘閱讀 · 英文

• 4 September 2025

  Jewels of the desert: Rajasthan's jewellery heritage

  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.

  作者 Nikita Sharma · Curator · 2 分鐘閱讀 · 英文

• 16 August 2025

  Sanjhi: cutting paper for a river

  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.

  作者 Nikita Sharma · Curator · 1 分鐘閱讀 · 英文

• 31 July 2025

  Karni Bharni: a Jain manuscript of consequences

  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.

  作者 Adib Rizvi · Curator · 1 分鐘閱讀 · 英文

• 11 March 2019

  The art of miniature painting

  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.

  作者 Adib Rizvi · Curator · 1 分鐘閱讀 · 英文