Salar Jung museum at Hyderabad is one of the three national museums of India and also the third largest in the country with the biggest one-man collections of antiques in the world, all belonging to Salar Jung family, which was finally converted into a museum by Nawab Mir Yusuf Ali Khan Salar Jung III (1889-1949), who was former Prime Minister of the seventh Nizam of Hyderabad. This museum has a collection of sculptures, paintings, carvings, textiles, manuscripts, ceramics, metallic artefacts, carpets, clocks and furniture from Japan, China, Burma, Nepal, Persia, Egypt, Europe and North America besides India. The English Bracket Clock at Salarjung Museum in Hyderabad is said to have manufactured in England and assembled in Calcutta in the late 19th century. This musical clock is one of th...
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