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The Victoria Memorial is a large marble building in Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India which was built between 1906 and 1921. It is dedicated to the memory of Queen Victoria (1819–1901) and is now a museum and tourist destination under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture.〔("Victoria Memorial." ) I love India website.〕 The Memorial lies on the ''Maidan'' (grounds) by the bank of the Hooghly River, near Jawaharlal Nehru road.〔Vaughan P. ("The Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta: conception, collections, conservation." ) Marg Publications, National Centre for the Performing Arts (India) 1997. Original from the University of Virginia. Digitized 7 April 2008. ISBN 8185026386, 9788185026381 Accessed at Google Books 14 December 2013.〕 == History == In January 1901, on the death of Queen Victoria,〔Lehman H. E. ("Lives of England's monarchs." ) AuthorHouse, 2005. p390. ISBN 1-4184-9692-8, 9781418496920 Accessed at Google Books 13 December 2013.〕 George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and Viceroy of India, suggested the creation of a fitting memorial. He proposed the construction of a grand building with a museum and gardens.〔Herbert E. W. ("Flora's empire: British gardens in India." ) Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. p224. ISBN 0-8122-0505-7, 9780812205053. Accessed at Google Books 13 December 2013.〕 Curzon said, :"Let us, therefore, have a building, stately, spacious, monumental and grand, to which every newcomer in Calcutta will turn, to which all the resident population, European and Native, will flock, where all classes will learn the lessons of history, and see revived before their eyes the marvels of the past."〔Dutta K. ("Calcutta: a cultural and literary history." ) S – 131. ISBN 1-902669-59-2, 9781902669595 Accessed at Google Books 13 December 2013.〕 The Prince of Wales, later King George V, laid the foundation stone on 4 January 1906 and it was formally opened to the public in 1921.〔()〕 In 1912, before the construction of the Victoria Memorial was finished, King George V announced the transfer of the capital of India from Calcutta to New Delhi.〔Gordon D. (ed.) ("Planning twentieth century capital cities." ) Planning, History and Environment Series. Routledge, 2006 p182. ISBN 0-203-48156-9, 9780203481561 Accessed at Google Books 13 December 2013.〕 Thus, the Victoria Memorial was built in what would be a provincial city rather than a capital. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victoria Memorial (India)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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