<smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"><smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"><smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"> <i style="">Vighneswara</i>: The Lord of Wisdom and Desire as Gleaned from Literature and the Images in Stone, Wood and Ivory in Salar Jung Museum </smarttagtype></smarttagtype></smarttagtype>

Abstract

Museum is an institution devoted to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value. A museum is typically a non-profit making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education and enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. Museums connect people to knowledge and information, creativity and inspiration. The paper describes diverse collection of Indian mythological figures in the Salar Jung Museum, especially the images of <i style="">Vinayaka</i> (<i style="">Vigneswara</i> or <i style="">Ganesa</i>), the Lord of Remover of Obstacles, in different media describing its artistic and thematic points of view.