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THE INDIAN MUSEUM: 1814-1914. 
^‘mansards” and an abundance of architectural sculpture. 
But although the Government of India increased the original 
grant by 2|- lakhs in 1906, it was found that the expenses en¬ 
tailed in its materialization would be greatly in excess of the 
money available and new plans of a simpler nature were pre¬ 
pared by Mr. Crouch. The work was completed in 1912. It 
included the rebuilding of a great part of the front of the 
west side of the Quadrangle, the masonry of which was 
found to be too heavy for its supports; the addition of a 
third floor along the top of this front, and the erection, in 
direct continuity with it, of a new wing of three floors and 240 
feet long. Space for this was found by the demolition of 
the old Bengal Art Gallery, a red-brick building originally 
erected for temporary purposes in connection with the Cal¬ 
cutta Exhibition of 1883-4. 
The buildings actually occupied by the Museum consist, 
therefore, at present of:— 
1. The Main Quadrangle facing Chowringhee. 
2. The New Wing in continuation of its front. 
3. The Sudder Street Block connected with it by 
bridges. 
So far as the public galleries a.re concerned, the plans ^ 
reproduced on pp. 126 and 127 show the arrangement of these 
buildings. It must, however, be understood that, for conve¬ 
nience of reproduction, the Sudder Street Block is removed 
from its proper place and represented as parallel to, instead of 
at right angles to, the east side of the Quadrangle. Moreover, 
the galleries of this block are not on the level of those in the 
latter, but must be approached from them by short flights of 
steps. 
The ground floor of the Quadrangle has a colonnade 
in Italian style and surrounds an open turfed space. In the 
colonnade a number of Hindu sculptures are exhibited, and 
it also contains certain geological specimens. The entrance 
is by a comparatively small pillared vestibule in which the 
1 We have to thank Mr. H. H. Green, Superintending Engineer, Presi¬ 
dency Circle, P.W.D., Bengal, for the drawings from which these plans were 
prepared. 
