Hyderabad, Feb. 4 -- India's first National Museum of Epigraphy is being set up at the famed Salar Jung Museum adding another feather in Hyderabad's historical cap.

The museum, under the Union Ministry of Culture, is the first of its kind in the country, which have information about the writing, scripts and languages using multimedia installations.

G Kishan Reddy, Union Minister for Culture, Tourism and Development of North Eastern Region, will lay the foundation stone for the unique museum on Monday. The cost of the project is about Rs 5 crore.

Museum to be housed in Salar Jung Museum

Salar Jung Museum authorities had earmarked about 6000 sft area exclusively for the National Epigraphy Museum in the existing museum building and the w...