The Palace was built and gifted by the Portuguese as a present to the Raja of Cochin around 1555. The Dutch carried out some extensions and renovations in the palace in 1663, and thereafter it was popularly called Dutch Palace. The rajas also made more improvements to it. Today, it is a portrait gallery of the […]
The museum is housed in a palace which is on of the oldest buildings of the Portuguese in the oriental style. Unique form the historical and architectural point of view. This was build around 1555 A.D. by the Portuguese and presented to vira kerala varma in order to pacify him and to compensate having blunder […]
The artist shown in the video is the making yellow colour for mural painting. The colour is made by grinding a kind of yellow coloured stone. Mural painters in Kerala follow traditional practices for the making of colours. A notable feature is that all the colours are derived from nature and no artificial colour is […]