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The need
for a museum of Modern Art was felt for the first time
in an Art Conference held in Calcutta in the year
1949. As a result the National Gallery of Modern Art
was inaugurated on March 29, 1954, at Jaipur House,
near India Gate, New Delhi. The Gallery is the premier
institution of its kind in India. It is run and
administered as a subordinate office to the Department
of Culture, Government of India. The NGMA has two
branches one at Mumbai and the other is being opened
at Bangalore shortly. The gallery is a repository of
the cultural ethos of the country and showcases the
changing art forms through the passage of the last
hundred and fifty years starting from about 1857 in
the field of Visual and Plastic arts.
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