State of Art

So on 13th of August we went to visit the palace and the museum there. In the auto that crap person settled to listen to Md. Rafi. And I was enjoying the vastness of Mysore city. It was OPEN from all the sides, no congestion apart from some busy areas like bus stops. I wonder why do people have to move out from these places and go to Bangalore, Mumbai etc where we don't even get time to think, leave alone enjoying the nature.
Anyway we reached the palace and went inside, and as usual SK came back to life. We bought the tickets to visit the palace, but instead of going inside he wanted to go into the adjacent field and roam there first. Anyway somebody convinced him there was nothing there and so we went inside the palace. Quite astonishingly I didn't find it as attractive as I did when I was there 4 years back. The guided tour (by ropes) seemed foolish and the palace didn't seem to have the luster. Although the paintings on the wall were as alive as ever. We just wondered how they gave a 3D effect to the pictures. And the use of colors was to the best. As were the details depicted in those pictures. They were fabulous. SK was immersed. Suddenly came back to this world and said that these were painted by Ravi Varma who is the most acclaimed painter from India. Of course he was right.
And then he started blaberring about the state of the paintings and other stuff put there for display. His arguments were valid, by the way the crafts were placed for display, they will not survive for another 100yrs. No way. and most of them are not that old. I think they would 200yrs old at max. That is still not a part of Indian history. In context of Indian heritage its like yesterday. Apart from the paintings hung on the wall and paintings on the roof of the darbaar, there was not much to see.
Then we proceeded to see the museum. That was pathetic. Seriously you wont give 20 bucks to see those. They had some household items thrown here and there. We were supposed to be amazed by toy car used by the Raja. Also the clothes placed there. NO details were present there. Sk was still blabbering. At the end of the museum we saw something interesting, guns and swords. Still no details. What kind of museum was that. Are we supposed to hire a guide by default. Then there were some musical instruments, those were rare and in pathetic condition. Got to see brass Jaltarang. Wait a minute! Brass looks somewhat like gold right? Well those were black.

Well that was the mysore palace which we visited. One additional information, when we go to the museum from the palace, there is a temple on left side. But the guide(looked like) said first we have to go to the museum and then can we enter the temple. Strange! I suppose if we visitedthe temple first it would have brought bad omen. Its always a reason similar to that, isn't it?