Museums of Bangalore: Indian Musical Experience

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Watch the video here:  https://youtu.be/xuSdTK4XeoI Overview: I thought Bangalore just had 2-3 museums which are well known until a few years ago, but a little research opened up my thoughts as I discovered several museums within the city. I have decided to visit all the museums in the city and document those.  The first one on the list is the Indian Musical Experience in JP Nagar 7th phase. This beautiful museum is dedicated to the evolution and science behind different forms of music from traditional to contemporary.  As we enter the museum, in the inner courtyard, we can see a sound garden, where we can learn about the sounds created from natural things like wood, stones, and metals. We can try our hand in generating music as well. This area is well enjoyed by both adults and children. We then get inside the museum and the experience starts from the 3rd floor, where we are shown a small animated movie with different types of sound created by nature. From there we enter an interacti
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Hoysala Dairy: Symbolising Karnataka…

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Overview: After visiting Belur and Halebid, I had almost concluded that there can't be a better marvel by the Hoysalas. But after doing some research and reading some blogs by travel gurus, I thought why not visit other legacies which the Hoysalas have left behind.. I did few trips to cover a few places but still I could not cover all the heritage sites. Below is the map showing Hoysala temples in different parts of Karnataka. Mostly concentrated along the Malnad region. I will publish each of the places in the map below in the coming weeks and link it to this main post.



 
Hoysala Trail-I: We visited a number of Hoysala temples in this trip across Hassan and  Tumkur districts. We covered the below places:
 




Hoysala Trail-2: Visited the below temples :
 
Belur:                    Chennakeshava temple
Halebid:                Hoysaleshwara temple
Doddagaddavalli: Lakshimi Devi temple
Koravangala:       Bucheshwara temple
Mosale:                 Nagareshwara Temple
Hulikere:               Bhuvanabhurana Katteshwara temple



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  1. Arti18 December 2011 at 14:07

    Wow! So many temples!! Waiting for your posts! This is a great post with the map, I loved it. I had did something similar when I had started my Char Dham trip.

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  2. Rahul18 December 2011 at 16:10

    thats a long list of temples...i will admit that Karnataka is blessed with outstanding architectures....its going to be a long travel blog....

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  3. Anonymous20 December 2011 at 03:38

    superlike !!

    -Vikram Bharadwaj

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  4. Santosh Bs20 December 2011 at 10:41

    wow... that's some travelling... and its a very good resource blog :)

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  5. Deguide20 December 2011 at 18:57

    I took up Hoysala Trail and covered majority of them except for Kaidala, it is real eye opener

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  6. obat asam urat25 July 2012 at 07:03

    postingan yang bagus tentang"hoysala-dairy-symbolising-karnataka"

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  7. Srinath14 August 2012 at 15:53

    hey nice work there 2 places where u can find Hoysala's temple near my village ... That are 1.Kuruvatti Mallikarjuna Temple ,Hadagali taluk ,and another is Somanatha temple Hralahalli...there also you can see Hoysala's Royal emblem

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