National Gallery of Art "the Indian cities of Madras (Chennai) is a center of cultural life of this city. It contains a large collection of sculptures and paintings created by Indian and British artists of different times.

The building, which currently houses the gallery was built in 1907 and was originally planned that there will be the Victoria memorial and Technical Institute, but in 1951 it was turned into an Art Gallery. In itself it represents the art work of amazing beauty is built of red Sandstone in the Indo-Saracenic style and is filled with lots of decorative elements and ornaments in the form of turrets, domes, carved friezes, moldings, columns and arches.

The gallery presents a rich collection of bronze statues Dating back to the X-XIII centuries, paintings of Mughal era (XVI-XVIII century), and a variety of Handicrafts: jewelry, toys, created by Indian craftsmen XI-XII century. Overall, the gallery is divided into numismatic, geological, anthropological, Botanical and Zoological sections.

In the section reserved for bronze sculptures, you can see a wonderful sculpture of the dancing God Shiva and his wife goddess Parvati and Krishna in various forms, described in the myths. Some of these exhibits is really valuable and unique. As presented in the gallery of engravings of British Thomas Daniel's, which allow the viewer to look at India from the inside. In addition, the gallery is known for miniature portraits of Indian rulers Akbar and Jahangir.

All these treasures of the National Art Gallery can be seen daily, except Fridays and public holidays.