Revi Karunakaran Memorial Museum
The Revi Karunakaran Museum
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The Revi Karunakaran Memorial Museum is a privately owned museum located in Alappuzha, Kerala, in southern India. It is named in memory of Revi Karunakaran.
The Museum
[edit]In 2003, it was built by Betty Karan in memory of her husband, the coir industrialist Revi Karunakaran.[1] It holds one of the largest private collections of Swarovski crystals in the world along with porcelain, jade, ivory, Keralan artifacts, furniture, and Tanjore paintings.[2][3][4]
The museum was inaugurated on 22 November 2006 by the former governor of Meghalaya M.M. Jacob.[1] The third phase of the museum was inaugurated on 22 November 2015 by Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, the fifth President of Sri Lanka.[5][6][7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "About us - RKK Museum". RKK Museum. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
- ^ Planet, Lonely; Benanav, Michael; Blasi, Abigail; Brown, Lindsay; Elliott, Mark; Harding, Paul; Kaminski, Anna; Mahapatra, Anirban; Mayhew, Bradley (1 October 2017). Lonely Planet India. Lonely Planet. ISBN 9781787011991.
- ^ Travel, Femina (19 June 2017). "Five things to do in Alleppey, Kerala". Femina India. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ^ "Revi Karunakaran Museum in Alappuzha, Revi Karuna Karan Museum". www.alappuzhaonline.in. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ^ "കാഴ്ചയുടെ അത്ഭുത ലോകം തുറന്ന് ശ്രീലങ്കന് മുന് പ്രസിഡന്റ് (Former Sri Lankan President opens an amazing world to behold)". Mathrubhumi. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ^ "ചന്ദ്രിക കുമാരതുംഗെ ആലപ്പുഴയില് (Chandrika Kumaratunga in Alappuzha)". Deepika. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ^ "RKK Museum 3rd Phase Inaguration". YouTube. Retrieved 27 September 2017.