Gyan, a museum to celebrate a father's legacy, is a find for art lovers

Gyan Museum is housed on a single floor and was built over four years by Parisian architect Paul Mathieu

Many would say that a hookah mouthpiece is an unusual gift for a father — and a non-smoker at that — to give his 16-year-old son, but the two metal walking-stick like objects with glittering stones inlaid to perfection sparked up a journey in young Gyan Chand Dhaddha’s brain that lasted several decades.

Over the next half-a-century or so, Jaipur-based Dhaddha started a jewellery designing and manufacturing unit. Travel was an integral part of what he did and Dhaddha who had an eye honed for intricacy and design began to collect objects of beauty from all over India. Whenever he