Albert Hall Museum is a museum in Jaipur

Jaipur

Jaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population of more than 3.1 million....

 city in Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

 state of India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. It is the oldest museum of the state and functions as the State museum of Rajasthan. The building is situated in Ram Niwas Garden

Ram Niwas Garden

Ram Niwas Garden is a garden situated in Jaipur city in Indian state of Rajasthan, built by Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh of Jaipur in 1868.-Overview:...

 outside the city wall opposite New gate and is a fine example of Indo-Saracenic architecture. The building was designed by Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob

Samuel Swinton Jacob

Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob was an English engineer, architect and writer, active in India and best known for the numerous public buildings he designed in the Indo-Saracenic style.-Early life and education:...

 and was opened as public museum in 1887. It is also called the Government Central Museum. Maharaja Ram Singh

Ram Singh

Ram Singh was a religious leader and social reformer and the first Indian to use non-cooperation and boycotting of British merchandise and services as a political weapon. He was the religious leader of the Namdhari sect of Sikhism...

 initially wanted this building to be a town hall, but his successor, Madho Singh II, decided it should be a museum for the art of Jaipur and included as part of the new Ram Nivas Garden.
The museum has a rich collection of artefacts like paintings, carpets, ivory, stone, metal sculptures, colourful crystal works etc.http://www.rajasthan-tourism.org/prime-attractions/albert-museum.html

It is named after King Edward VII (Albert Edward), during whose visit to the city as the Prince of Wales

Prince of Wales

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, its foundation stone was laid on February 6, 1876. .