Victoria Memorial Hall is one of the famous impressive statue of India. It characterises the magnificent and awesome Italian Renaissance design of infrastructure, excellently mixed with Indian impacts Victoria Memorial Hall is one of the famous impressive statue of India. It characterises the magnificent and awesome Italian Renaissance design of infrastructure, excellently mixed with Indian influences. Victoria Memorial Hall is considered as the perfect example in Kolkata, West Bengal. It is thought by Lord Curzon during the British rule as a monument to the expired Queen Victoria. According to him, Victoria Memorial Hall was to built the shape of a huge rock hall in Kolkata. The goal of the Victoria Memorial Hall is to operate as the first art exhibition, heritage studies, and human space in Kolkata. To follow its goal it gathers, protects, and removes intelligence within the general population related to art work, real artefacts,within the people related to the craft items . Victoria Memorial Hall assembles daily exclusive showcases, speeches, journals , and communicative learning activities all over the year for the advantage of the listeners, especially the adolescents.
The Magnificent Museum The Magnificent Museum houses oil paintings from the Victoria Memorial Hall collection . It includes the drawings made by famous experts such as Thomas & William Daniel, Johaann Zoffany, R. Mackenzie and Charles Hosley. One of the features of the exhibition is a glorious painting presenting the South fence made by the Russian expert Vassili Verestchagin. This magnum opus portrays the state lobby of King Edward VII, and captures the difference of being the largest oil painting on a mural and also considered the the largest drawing in the world.
The Main Lobby
The Main Lobby or the Queen's Hall, is one of the major attractions of the Victoria Memorial Hall. It is ring-shaped and has a fairy large stone idol of Queen Victoria, was made by Sir Thomas Brock, standing in the middle of the lobby in a straight line under the major dome of the pillar . In the corner of the fence of the ring shaped hall are gem conferences, on which are written in separate mother tongue, passages from Queen Victoria's announcement on the festival of the guessing by the Crown of the Empire of India and on the festival of assumption by the Crown of the Empress of India. Below the central rotunda are a lists of twelve half ring shaped masterpieces made by Frank Salisbury presenting the need of events in the existence of Queen Victoria.
Princely Galleries
The hall shows the firearms and the protection of the history from the stories of Victoria Memorial Hall. It comprises of two brass French precepts snatched by Robert Clive , the Commander in Chief of the British East India Company, from the French armed forces during the Battle of Plassey in 1757 and a plaster of Paris replica of the battleground of Plassey. A brass revolver which was owned by Maharaja Krishna Chandra Roy and a few bronze half busts are a slice of the presented antiques in this museum. Other antiques such as khanjar, protection , Katar and harquebus revolvers are the main fascinations of the museum.
