The Maharaja Fateh Singh Museum in Vadodara is housed inside the expansive Lakshmi Vilas Palace Estate and was established in 1961. The museum was an adaptive reuse of the family’s Motibaug School.
Founder - Maharaja Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III
Maharaja Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III's passion for the arts is paralleled by the city's renowned Maharaja Sayajirao University and Maharaja Fateh Singh Museum in Vadodara.
Architecture of Maharaja Fateh Singh Museum
The museum’s odd mash-up of European, Rajasthani, Gujarati, and Islamic styles form Indo-Saracenic architecture, made from golden stone.
Maharaja Fateh Singh Museum in Vadodara utilises turrets, towers, domes, arches, and columns. The two sections can be reached with a working toy train—the tiniest locomotive engine in the world.
Maharaja Fateh Singh Museum Collection
The Maharaja Fateh Singh Museum in Vadodara boasts artworks curated by the royal Maratha family. It includes portraits, marble busts, paintings from the European Renaissance and Rococo periods.
The museum also features 19th and 20th-century paintings. Indian miniature paintings, contemporary Western paintings, Greco-Roman exhibits, Chinese and Japanese art, and European paintings.
Maharaja Fateh Singh Museum also have a diverse furniture, ivory, turban and headpiece gallery, which began in 2015, showcasing the opulent gifts from around the world.