Kerala Museum (also known as the Museum of Kerala History) is one of the oldest arts and history museums in Kochi. The museum was founded by philanthropist and entrepreneur R. Madhavan Nayar (1914-1996) in 1986. Kerala Museum has three galleries: The Museum of Kerala History, The Dolls Museum and the Gallery of Modern Art. The main components of this complex are The Museum of Kerala History and the Gallery of Contemporary Indian Art & The Centre for Visual Art. The first is a kind of light-and-sound show that walks the visitor through thirty-eight life-sized tableaus that tell the story of this land through people who were pivotal to the history of this region and covers events over the past two thousand years.