Museum

The Pantheon Complex was built before 1789 and was a place of assemblage for the British till it was bought by the Government in 1830. Later, several new buildings were added to it. Today, this complex houses the Government Museum, the National Art Gallery and the Connemara Public Library.The museum was established in 1857 and has the country's best collection of South Indian bronzes, both ancient and modern, among which the beautiful bronze icons

of Nataraja, Raman, Seeta, Lakshmanan and Hanuman are worth mentioning. The museum also has geology and anthropology sections. The Amaravathy Gallery contains rare second century marble sculptures which depict important events in the life of Gautama Buddha. The sculptures were unearthed from the Buddhist ruins at Amaravathi.

The National Art Gallery exhibits serveral beautiful paintings, which include 16th and 18th century ones from Rajasthan, the Mughal period and 17th Century Deccani art. There are display of bronzes from the 10th and 13th centuries and Indians h andicrafts from the 11th and 12th centuries.