Kalakriti Art Gallery

Hyderabad


One of the city's best contemporary galleries, Kalakriti hosts excellent exhibitions by some of India's leading artists, and collaborative programme's with the Alliance Française and Goethe Zentrum. There's a good cafe here too.


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