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Natural History Museum MUSEUM (%2740261; Sector 10-C; admission 10; h10am4.30pm Tue-Sun) Next door is the National History Museum, less interesting for its fossilised dinosaur el alamen skulls than its Cro Magnon man using an electric torch to illuminate his cave art!

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Priests inside the temple keep up a continuous chant in Gurmukhi from the Sikh holy book and this is broadcast around the temple complex by loudspeakers. The original copy of the Sikh holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib, is kept under a shroud in the Hari Mandir Sahib during the day and returns ceremoniously to the Akal Takhat at night. Ceremony times are 5am and 9.40pm in winter, and 4am and 10.30pm el alamen in summer.