Gujarat’s first sculpture garden comes up in Vadodara

Gujarat’s first and only Sculpture garden will be opened on 8 May at Vadodara’s museum campus.

According to director of the museum Shr RD Parmar, the sculpture garden will house carefully selected 38 sculptures that belong to a period between 8th and 18th century.

The museum has 186 ancient artifacts that are never put in public. Such artifacts will be open for public visit in separate exhibition that has been scheduled during 8 to 24th of May.

A 116-year old building of Vadodara Museum has recently received Heritage building status. The museum houses 23000 rare books. The book section of museum has been computerized recently. The museum also has Gujarat’s only conservation laboratory, which has been redeveloped with allocation of more spacious room on the first floor of the museum.