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Alampur ASI Museum is a museum located in the historical temple town of
Alampur, Mahbubnagar Hemalapuram (Alampur) is a town situated in Jogulamba Gadwal district in the Indian state of Telangana. Alampur is a popular Hindu pilgrimage site in Shaktism and is also home to the Navabrahma Temples, a group of nine temples dedicated to Shiva ...
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Telangana Telangana (; , ) is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian subcontinent, Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India b ...
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Archaeological Survey of India The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is an Indian government agency that is responsible for archaeological research and the conservation and preservation of cultural historical monuments in the country. It was founded in 1861 by Alexande ...
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History

The Alampur museum was established in the year 1952. The museum is neighbored by the popular Nava Brahma temples where over 124 stones sculptures and 26 inscriptional slabs are on display including 64 loose sculptures. The time of these sculptures goes from sixth to sixteenth Century AD and they belong to Kakatiyas, Chalukyas, and Vijayanagara dynasties. The Alampur gallery is famous for its huge and varied collection of sculptures that are organized in a major corridor. The collections on display have many beautiful pieces, a few of them in cleaned black stone that show that these are from the eleventh century Kakatiyas.


The collection

It has a collection of large and varied sculptures. Most of the specimens are from the 7th century Chalukya period and some of the stones are from the 12th century
Kakatiya The Kakatiya dynasty (IAST: Kākatīya) was an Indian dynasty that ruled most of eastern Deccan region comprising present day Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, and parts of eastern Karnataka and southern Odisha between 12th and 14th centuries. Th ...
period. It contains the images of Shiva with Asthadigpalakas and ceilings of Kakatiyas with the image of Nataraja along with the Nandi facing it.


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