Revi Karunakaran Memorial Museum
Private museum in Kerala, India
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The Revi Karunakaran Museum
The Revi Karunakaran Memorial Museum is a privately owned museum located in Alappuzha, Kerala, in southern India. It is named in memory of Revi Karunakaran.
The Museum
In 2003, it was built by Betty Karan in memory of her husband, the coir industrialist Revi Karunakaran.[1] It holds one of the largest private collections of Swarovski crystals in the world along with porcelain, jade, ivory, Keralan artifacts, furniture, and Tanjore paintings.[2][3][4]
The museum was inaugurated on 22 November 2006 by the former governor of Meghalaya M.M. Jacob.[1] The third phase of the museum was inaugurated on 22 November 2015 by Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, the fifth President of Sri Lanka.[5][6][7]