About Albert Hall
Central Museum or the Albert Hall lies in the Ram Niwas Garden. It is a vast and verdant garden housing a zoo, a greenhouse, an aviary, a museum and a sports ground. Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh II built it in 1868 as a relief project for his famine struck subjects.

Indo-Saracenic Style of Architecture
The Albert Hall has been modelled on the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and is afine exampleof Indo-Saracenic style of architecture. The hall was named after Albert, the consort of Queen Victoria's husband. Albert's son the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) laid the foundation stone in 1876. It was designed and devised by Colonel Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob (1841-1917).

Museum
The Albert Hall has been converted into the Central Museum which proudly displays Rajasthan's art and culture and outlines the Rajput morality with these lines: "A Rajput puts his life at risk if he is forced to abjure his faith, if he is deprived of his lands, and if his womenfolk are molested."

It now houses an exquisite collection of metalware, decorative wares,iniature portraits, sculptures, paintings,natural history specimen, an Egyptian mummyamong various other objet d' art. Rajasthani village life is also displayed through costumes, pottery, brassware and woodwork. The Durbar Hall, usually locked, houses several stunning carpets including the magnificent Persian Garden Carpet, one of India's finest art treasures. It was made in Kerman, Persia in 1632 and represented the garden of paradise based on a quadrangular design.