Virtual tour of British relics in state museum soon

Lucknow, Jan 28 : The state museum that is located in the Nawab Wajid Ali Shah Zoological Garden in Lucknow, will soon be a click away for the virtual visitors.
The facility of virtual tours would initially be available only for the ‘white house’, a wing of the main museum that is labelled as ‘foreign sculptural museum’.
According to AK Singh, director, State Museum, “It has been a learning phase for all of us as pandemic has taught us to make use of technology. Hence, we are going to start holding virtual tours. Initially, this facility would be only for the sculptor museum and not the main museum.” State museum’s wing — a small hall that houses the ‘controversial’ statues and sculptures that were brought from across the state is situated on the backside of the imposing building.
Painted in white, the hall houses almost two dozen of colonial relics.
It includes the life-size bronze statues of Queen Victoria, who also held an additional title of Empress of India. The statue brought from Allahabad was, perhaps, the grandest one, portraying Victoria wearing a long gown, with tight fitted bodice and holding a sovereign’s Orb (a piece of coronation regalia) in her left hand. In her right hand, she holds a sceptre which points downwards.