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| | Places of Interest in Hyderabad |
 | | This museum is a unique art collection of a single, great connoisseur of art, Mir Yousuf Ali khan, better known to the world as Salarjung III, scion of an illustrious and wealthy family and a short lived prime minister of Hyderabad. |
 | | The object d'art include Persian carpets, Mughal miniatures, Chinese procelain, Japanese acquerware, famous Pearls Of Hyderabad sculptors including the veiled Rebecca and Marguerite and Mephistopheles, a superb collection of Jade, Daggers belonging to Queen Nur Jahen and the emperors Jehangir and Shahjahan, Aurangazeb's sword, Silver,Bidri and Braocade,Rococo,Baroque and Pre-Raphaelite art,even cuckoo clocks and walking sticks. |
 | | It was started in 1614A.D. by the sixth Qutb shahi King Abdullah Qutb Shah and completed in 1687 A.D. by Aurangzeb, when he annexed Golconda. |
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