The Patna museum in India’s Bihar features amongst the best in the world. It is in fact placed above New York\u2019s Metropolitan Museum of Art and Paris\u2019s Louvre in the World\u2019s 100 Best Museums 2026 list published by Germany-based travel guide Worth a Journey. The Museum has been ranked in the ninth spot and is the only Indian Museum to feature in the list.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe vision was to create a museum that meets world-class standards. Today, as the museum has gained international recognition, we feel a sense of pride and achievement,\u201d said Anjani Kumar Singh, director general of Bihar Museum, on achieving this remarkable feat.<\/p>\n
The top five spots are held by Mexico City’s Museo Nacional de Antropolog\u00eda, Madrid’s Museo del Prado, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humleb\u00e6k, Denmark, Saint Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.<\/p>\n
Inaugurated in 2015, the museum was designed by Japanese Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Mak in collaboration with Mumbai-based Opolis Architects. The museum is located in Patna’s Bailey road and houses remarkable collections of historical artefacts, sculptures, coins, manuscripts and folk art from ancient India to the year 1764.<\/p>\n
The galleries feature different historical periods, from the Mauryans to the Mughals and the Sur Dynasty. A Children’s Gallery also exists, with displays featuring animals, folk art, culture and science. There is also a Diaspora Gallery that highlights Bihar’s contribution and presence beyond its geographical boundaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Patna museum in India’s Bihar features amongst the best in the world. It is in fact placed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,325178,49,48,356,75,325179,325180],"class_list":["post-950652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-bihar-museum","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-patna-museum","tag-patna-museum-top-ten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}