Government Museum, Chennai-Bronze gallery

Started in 1851, The Government Museum, Chennai, or the Madras Museum is the second oldest museum in India after the Indian Museum in Kolkata. The Museum was shifted to the present site in 1854 and many additions to the original building were constructed between 1864 and 1890. The museum complex consisting of six buildings and 46 galleries. The objects displayed in the museum cover a variety of artifacts and objects covering diverse fields including archeology, numismatics, zoology, natural history, sculptures, palm-leaf manuscripts, and Amravati paintings. It has the richest collections of bronze idols, 500 of them dating to 1000 BCE, in Asia