The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA)
is the premier art gallery under Ministry
of Culture, Government of India.
The main museum at Jaipur House in New Delhi
was established on 29 March 1954 by the Government
of India, with subsequent branches at Mumbai
and Bangalore.
Its collection of more than 14,000 works includes
works by artists such as Thomas Daniell, Raja
Ravi Verma, Abanindranath Tagore, Rabindranath
Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose,
Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil as well as foreign
artists, apart from sculptures by various
artists.
Some of the oldest works preserved here date
back to 1857.
With 12,000 square meters of exhibition space,
the Delhi branch is one of the world's largest
modern art museums.
== History ==
Situated at the end of Rajpath, in the Central
Hexagon around the India Gate, the building
was a former residential palace of the Maharaja
of Jaipur, hence known as Jaipur House.
The butterfly-shaped building with a central
dome and built in 1936, and designed by Sir
Arthur Blomfield, after the construction of
Lutyens' Delhi.
The Central Hexagon around the India Gate,
where the buildings of leading princely states
were situated, was itself designed by Sir
Edwin Lutyens.Though the idea of the National
Gallery was floated in 1949, it was formally
inaugurated by Vice-president Dr S.Radhakrishnan
in 1954, in the presence of Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru.
Hermann Goetz (1898–1976), a noted German
art historian became its first curator and
in time it added new facilities such as Art
restoration services, an Art reference Library
and a Documentation Centre.Then in 2009, a
new wing of the National Gallery of Modern
Art was inaugurated adding almost six times
the space to the existing gallery, plus it
has a new auditorium, a preview theatre, conservation
laboratory, library and academic section as
well as a cafeteria and museum shop.
== Gallery ==
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See also ==
National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore
The Last Harvest : Paintings of Rabindranath
Tagore
Kolkata Museum of Modern 
Art
== Notes ==
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External links ==
National Gallery of Modern Art, official website
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alternate (no flash)
