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Rh is an excellent thing, as it enables artizans to disposel of their goods to the best advantage. In addition to which there is a Library and Picture Gallery.

For the restoration and maintenance of a higher standard in the art-wares and manufactures of the province, the Committee of Management has prepared a list of such specimens as are in the Museum; and information regarding the art manufactures of these Provinces can be had from the Curator.

The Museum is open throughout the year (with the exception of Fridays and one week in the rainy season) from 7-30 A. M. to 3-30 P. M., during the months of November, December, January, and February; and from 6-30 A. M. to 3-30 P. M. during the remainder of the year.

The afternoon of the 15th of each month is specially set apart for Pardanishins. During the visit of the women in parda the male servants are made to retire from the building to allow the pardanishins and their female attendants to have free access to the place, a privilege which is much appreciated.

The Museum is visited by people from all parts of India and the crowds who come on holidays go away filled with delight and evidently consider every section of it most interesting. Every effort is made to make the place a centre of instruction as well as recreation.

The Residency is far too famous a place and too generally known to require a very detailed description. It was originally a very extensive and beautiful brick building, with lofty rooms, ﬁne verandahs, and splendid porticoes. Besides having a ground floor and two upper stories, it had a tykhana, or cellar of splendid apartments, as lofty and well arranged as any in the house.

It was built in 1800, by Nawab Sadat Ali Khan, for the British Resident at his Court; and such was the commodiousness of the house, that, during the seige, it afforded accommodation for many.

The building stands on an elevated spot not far from the Chutter Munzil. It was connected by a covered passage to a building on the south side having a tykhana, or underground rooms, which were resorted to by the Resident during the summer. These rooms, owing to their immunity from shot and shell, were occupied, during the investment of the place in 1857, by the women and children of H. M.'s 32nd Foot. A room in the Residency, lately renewed, contains a model showing the defences, &c.. being a facsimile of one in the Museum prepared from the design by the Revel. T. Moore, formerly Civil Chaplain of Lucknow.