Visiting Victoria Memorial Museum Kolkata India
The Victoria Memorial , Kolkata was creatively designed by architect Sir William Emerson as a tribute to Queen Victoria . He combined Mughal architectural styles to make an Indo-Saracenic structure primarily from Makara marble. The Victoria Memorial was opened in 1921 as a tourist attraction. Besides the Royal Gallery with portraits of the British royal family, the Victoria Memorial museum section contains a vast collection of exhibits that display maps, coins, stamps, weapons, and other artifacts related to the era during which Queen Victoria ruled as Empress of India and the later years of the British colonial rule in India.