Bharat Kala Bhavan, located inside the BHU campus, is an art and architecture museum 
and houses a vast collection of paintings, Hindu and Buddhist sculptures and other materials of archeological importance. The Bharat Kala Bhavan was established in the year 1920 A.D. In the main hall of the Bharat Kala Bhawan, there is a figure of a man standing on one leg and one hand on his hip and lifting a mass of stone above his head, with one hand. The figure is said to be of Lord Krishna, lifting Mount Govardhana. Many images in the Bharat Kala Bhavan confirm to the existence of Krishna cult in Kashi in 15th and 16th century.
Bharat Kala Bhavan also has a great collection of miniature paintings from the courts of Mughals and other Kingdoms and principalities. Some of the important sections in the Bharat Kala Bhavan are Mahamana Malaviya gallery, Nicholas Roerich gallery, Chhavi (Painting Gallery), sculpture gallery, Nidhi (Treasures) gallery, sculpture gallery, archaeological gallery, decorative art gallery and Banaras through ages gallery.
Bharat Kala Bhavan History
Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi has a reputation of being a center of learning since time immemorial.
The city in the past has been home to several educational institutions of repute. It is not surprising that the city still boasts off as many as 6 different universities; a feat almost unachievable in India. Nevertheless, the most important and prominent among these is Banaras Hindu University of BHU. It is sometimes also called Banaras Hindu Vishwavidhyalaya.
BHU was built in the year 1916-1917 under the special act of parliament passed in the year 1915 named BHU act. The act was passed by the interim parliament that worked under the imperial British government. Mahamna Pundit Madan Mohan Malaviya and Annie Besant did the conceptualization and implementation of this university. Raja of Kashi donated 1350 acres of land for the construction of the sprawling campus.
About Jantar Mantar
India has always enjoyed a place of repute in the world whether it is in the field of architecture
or science and technology. Combining the country’s expertise in both these fields is the Jantar Mantar at Delhi, a part of a series of five observatories built by Raja Sawai Jai Singh of Rajasthan during the early 18th century AD across Delhi, Jaipur, Ujjain, Mathura and Varanasi.
Legend has it that the origin of the Jantar Mantar or Yantra Mandir(literary translated into Temple of Instruments) was brought about by a disagreement amongst scholars about celestial positions. It was the dream child of Swai Jai Singh II, a great astronomer of India. Built in 1724, the Jantar Mantar was built at a time that is generally referred to in history as the Dark Period of Indian History. The Mughal Empire was on a state of decline after the death of Aurangzeb and Muhammad Shah, the then Mughal emperor was desperately seeking alliances with the Hindu Rajput nobility. One of these was Sawai Jai Singh II of Amber. Passionate about astronomy, Sawai Jai Singh II once chanced upon a debate amongst the Hindu and Muslim astrologers in Muhammad Shah’s court over the planetary transits of the period. It was then, that he offered to rectify the existing planetary tables, which had been left untouched since the Vedic period, an offer that was accepted by the grateful Mohammad Shah.
