<P> After partition, the division of collections took place on April 10, 1948 . Sixty percent of objects were retained by Pakistan and forty percent collection fell in the share of India . </P> <P> The museum was inaugurated on 6 May 1968 by Dr. M.S. Randhawa, the then Chief Commissioner of Chandigarh . </P> <P> The Government Museum and Art Gallery was designed by the Swiss born French architect, Le Corbusier along with his associate architects namely Manmohan Nath Sharma, Pierre Jeanneret and Shiv Dutt Sharma . The design was completed during the period of 1960 - 62 and construction took place between 1962 and 1967 . It is part of the three museums designed by Le Corbusier, the other two being Sanskar Kendra, Ahmedabad and National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo . </P> <P> The building is a museum and art gallery which regularly conducts art acquisition programs for expansion . Envisaged as a vehicle for transmission of knowledge in the Second Five Year Plan and the National Education Policy, it serves as a unique cultural and historical resource for the region . Having significant collection of Gandhara sculptures, Pahari miniature painting and contemporary Indian art, it is regularly visited by tourists, artists, scholars and students . Researchers, architects and scholars on Le Corbusier and Modernization are also frequent visitors to the building and its surrounding . They ensemble to study its architectural values as it represents the series of museums designed by Le Corbusier . The pivoted entrance, metal panelled door, fixed furniture, display systems, exposed concrete sculpturesque gargoyles are symbolic of the prevailing style of Chandigarh's architecture . The mural in the museum reception area executed by one of India's finest contemporary artists, Satish Gujral adds colour to the otherwise stark exposed concrete building . </P>

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