Museum to celebrate 52nd foundation day

HYDERABAD: The Salar Jung Museum will be celebrating the 52nd foundation day on Dec. 16 in a grand manner.
The museum has a very interesting history behind its formation. It came into existence on Dec. 16, 1951, and was declared to be an institution of national importance by an Act of Parliament known as ''Salar Jung Museum Act'' on May 19, 1961. Salar Jung III, Mir Yousuf Ali Khan served as a prime minister under the last Nizam and had no heirs.After his demise in 1949, the Government of India appointed a committee to administer the affairs of the Salar Jung estate.
The then chief civil administrator of Hyderabad state, M K Velode approached a well-known art critic Dr James Cousins to arrange the various objects that lied scattered in the estate. For the venue of the proposed museum, the ancestral palace of the Salar Jungs was chosen where Yousuf Ali Khan lived all his life.