Bihar Museum Ranked 9th Globally, Outpaces Louvre & Met; Anand Mahindra Praises Feat

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The Bihar Museum in Patna has earned global recognition after being ranked ninth in the world's top 100 museums by international travel magazine Worth A Journey. The prestigious ranking places the Patna museum ahead of prominent cultural institutions including Paris's Louvre and New York's Met Museum. Industrialist Anand Mahindra praised the milestone on social media, referring to it as a seminal moment of recognition. Highlighted as the image of the day, the news bulletin noted that the museum documents the rich history of Bihar and the ancient city of Pataliputra, with credit given to Nitish Kumar and his administration for conceptualising the initiative.

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00:00An eye of a controversy surrounding PNB in that story.

00:04Okay, just about enough time to leave you this Friday night

00:07with our image of the day ahead of the weekend.

00:10The Bihar Museum in Patna has been ranked ninth

00:14in the world's top hundred museums

00:16picked by an international travel magazine called Worth a Journey.

00:20It's even been ranked above Paris' Louvre and New York's Met Museum.

00:25Industrialist Anand Mahindra in a social media message

00:27called it a seminal moment of recognition.

00:30If you haven't been to Patna and haven't seen the museum,

00:33aapne dekha hi kya hai.

00:35To be honest, it is a wonderful museum

00:38that truly documents the rich history of Bihar

00:42that was once Patliputra.

00:44Do go to Patna and get a glimpse of that

00:49truly well-curated museum in Patna.

00:53So that's the image of the day.

00:55Well done to all those behind it.

00:58Credit also to Nitish Kumar and his team

01:00who had conceptualized this several years ago.

01:04That's our image of the day.

01:07Thanks for watching.

01:08Stay well.

01:09Stay safe.

01:11Jai Hind.

01:12Shubratri.

01:13Namaskar.

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