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December 21, 2025

Pettagam is India's first private museum that is a nod to the endearing legacy of Chettinad jewellery

- -Bindu Gopal Rao

Chest of Wonders

Traditionally, every Chettiar home once had a pettagam—a weighty iron chest that held not just jewels, but clothes, and what-have-you. Now Pettagam, the newly opened private museum in Chettinad, unlocks that legacy for the world, spotlighting the glittering global odyssey of the Nagarathars, Tamil Nadu’s fearless seafaring business clan.

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