Dakshinachitra

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Dakshinachitra

DakshinaChitra is an exciting cross cultural living museum of art, architecture, lifestyles, crafts and performing arts of South India. The main mission is to exhibit, promote and preserve aspects of the broader, more inclusive cultures of the states and to bring these arts to the public in a participative, enjoyable and engaging way. DakshinaChitra Heritage Museum , a project of Madras Craft Foundation an NGO was opened to the public on December 14th 1996. The Museum is located overlooking the Bay of Bengal, at Muttukadu, twenty five kilometers south of Central Chennai, on the East Coast Road to Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, India.

DakshinaChitra has a collection of 18 authentic historical houses with contextual exhibitions in each house. All the houses bought and reconstructed at DakshinaChitra had been given for demolition by their owners. The authentic homes in a regional vernacular style are purchased, taken down, transported and reconstructed by artisans Stapathis of the regions from where the houses came

Address DakshinaChitra Museum, East Coast Road,
Muttukadu, Kanchipuram

Restaurant , yes
Car Parking , 100

Room available AC and Non AC

The complex brings together old buildings that have been transplanted from other sites, to give an idea of vernacular architecture and forms of community living from southern states namely Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala. It has zones devoted to these four southern states. The architecture is not grandiose, and is not folk either, this is mostly urban middle class traditional architecture, which means it is a complex that eschews spectacle and grand scale, as well as ethnography.

Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu Merchant House
Brahmin House
Silk Weavers House

Agricultural House
Potters House

Andhra Pradesh
Coastal Andhra House
Ikat House

Karnataka
The Chikamagalur House
Ilkal Weavers House

Kerala
Syrian Christian House
Calicut House
Hindu Trivandrum House
Granary

Pricing category , Standard

DakshinaChitra

A. General Ambience
B. Rooms
C. Cleanliness and Hygiene
D.Garden
E. Lawn Ambience
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