JAIPUR
Small, well-curated jewelry museum from the Amrapali brand — good if you want to understand traditional Rajasthani jewelry-making before shopping in Johari Bazaar so you can spot low-quality imitations.
Opened on 20 January 2018, the museum was established by Rajiv Arora and Rajesh Ajmera, college friends who founded the jewelry house Amrapali Jewels in 1978 after noticing that traditional Indian jewelry designs and techniques were disappearing as old pieces were melted down and remade in modern styles. Housed on Ashok Marg in C-Scheme, the roughly 6,500-square-foot museum displays around 800 of the founders' 4,000-piece collection of antique and tribal jewelry, ornaments, and decorative objects gathered over four decades of travel across India. It functions as a private curatorial archive of vanishing regional jewelry-making traditions rather than a royal or state institution.
