President Pranab Mukherjee Inaugurates Vintage Tapestries and Carpets Museum

President Pranab Mukherjee Inaugurates Vintage Tapestries and Carpets Museum  President Pranab Mukherjee on the occasion of his 81st birthday on December 11, 2016 inaugurated a museum for vintage tapestries and carpets in the Marble Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.President Pranab Mukherjee Inaugurates Vintage Tapestries and Carpets Museum.  The museum will showcase Zardozi

canopies from the early 1900s, red embroidered canopy prepared for the 1911 Delhi Durbar of King George VI, collection of Buddhist art, paintings, carvings and miscellaneous gifts presented to different Presidents.  Besides the museum, the President also launched a campaign ‘100 Million for 100 Million to protect child rights, release books on ‘Rashtrapati Bhavan: From Raj to Swaraj’; ‘Life at Rashtrapati Bhavan’ and ‘Indradhanush – Volume II’.