Some
of the finest museums of India are in Delhi. The National Museum on Janpath
is the premier repository of antiquities. Built in 1960, it has an extraordinary
collection representing the entire span of Indian civilization from pre-historic
times. Its galleries include finds from the Indus Valley Civilization, superb
sculptures in stone, and bronzes from the Chola period, the largest collection
of miniature paintings in the world, manuscripts, a Buddhist Gallery, including
relics of the Buddha from Piprahwa, the exquisite Jewelry Gallery, the Anthropological
Gallery of tribal art; galleries devoted to decorative and applied arts, Maritime
Heritage and Pre-Columbian art, and the Central Asian Antiquities, Gallery of
Auriel Stein's finds along the ancient Silk Route (the great murals however,
are on display at the adjacent Archaeological Survey of India). 
