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The Transformation of a Royal Palace

Chapter 5: The Garden and the Museum Café

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The removal of two hundred tractor loads of earthquake rubble from the walled-in area of the gardens behind the museum revealed the remnants of foundations and walls that were most likely parts of the original seven courtyards of the palace.

A cylindrical deep-well was discovered, excavated and reconstructed with its rim of original stones. Sunken courtyards as the one in the foreground were laid open, with their pavement repaired, and integrated in a new landscaping concept.

Below Left: Beergarden; Centre: Roof Pavilion; Right: Blending traditional and modern design

Above Left: brass roof pavilion with Taleju Temple; Centre: Axonometric View; 
Ceramic Garden Lamp

Below
• table top with board game of ceramic tiles
• traditional roof of hand-made tiles (jhinghati)
• detail of carved timber brackets
• brick screen wall for garden partitions
• center stone of sunken back courtyard

• old pavement around deep well

access to Museum Café with restored deep well

• shiva linga salvaged from earthquake rubble

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