Temple riches conjure a Louvre in Kerala
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Future generations must see it, and that is the duty of this generation
The lengthy name itself could lend it that special flavour, as in the case of museums like the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in Spain's Basque country, or the Philbrook Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Some of these are not essential items for temple rituals and can be displayed for future generations to learn history and for research purposes", Varman told ET.
Local MP Shashi Tharoor is another supporter of the idea of establishing a museum to display the temple's glittering collection of exclusive antiques
"Future generations must see it, and that is the duty of this generation", says AR Udaya Varman, Kerala's director of museums, who feels the state capital deserves a museum on the lines of the Louvre or the British Museum, given the incredible array of antique ornaments in the Padmanabha Swamy temple's vaults
Fittingly, the likely new kid on the block is the former princely state of Travancore, now southern Kerala, which had relations with practically every part of the world through many centuries, from Egypt to Portugal , Rome to China, and France to Arabia
"Some of the finds in the temple are historical items like coins of ancient times, and other such artifacts
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