DakshinaChitra Heritage Museum
Open-air museum of relocated South Indian homes, with working weavers, potters and craft workshops.
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This guide to DakshinaChitra Heritage Museum, on the coast road south of Chennai, follows the craftsmen brought in from four South Indian states to take old homes apart and raise them again. It steps inside the working houses of a Kanchipuram-style silk weaver and a family of potters, and ends up among the teak pillars of a Chettiar merchant's courtyard. Start at the weaver's house, where a pit loom is still in use.
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