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The Bapu Museum in Vijayawada, which has been remade with cutting edge innovations and consideration of 1,500 artifacts from the ancient period to the nineteenth century, will be introduced by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy on Thursday.
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The Bapu Museum in Vijayawada, which has been remade with cutting edge innovations and consideration of 1,500 artifacts from the ancient period to the nineteenth century, will be introduced by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy on Thursday.
Addressing media, G Vani Mohan, Commissioner, Department of Archeology and Museums, Andhra Pradesh stated, "Museum has 1500 artifacts relating to 10 lakh years ago to 19th century.
We`ve used augmented and virtual reality technologies here." Informing about the history of the museum, Mohan said that the Victoria Memorial Building where the museum is situated was constructed in 1887.
"It was taken over by the government of Andhra Pradesh in 1962.
The state government established an archaeological museum named `Victoria Jubilee Museum`.
This is the place where Pingali Venkayya presented the tricolor to Mahatma Gandhi during the AICC meeting in 1921.
The same flag is adopted as the national flag on July 22, 1947," she said.