A museum is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary.

Founded in 1814 at the cradle of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (at the present building of the Asiatic Society, 1 Park Street, Kolkata). Indian Museum is the earliest and the largest multipurpose Museum not only in the Indian subcontinent but also in the Asia-Pacific region of the world.

Archaeological Museum

Art Museums and Gallaries

Architecture Museum

Food Museum

Medical Museum

National Museum

Numismatic Museum

Railway Museum

Science Museum etc.

Museums in Jammu and Kashmir• It is a red sand stone monument,

surrounded by beautiful Shivaliks and TawiRiver.

• It was the residential palace of Raja AmarSingh but now the palace has been converted into a museum.

• The museum has a hexagonal room housing a magnificent golden throne, with a 120 kg pure gold sofa, embedded with golden lions.

• Other attractions of the museum include a gallery displaying paintings known as NalDamyanti along with other Pahari paintings and family portraits of rulers of Jammu and Kashmir.

• The Museum also boasts of a library having a collection of around 25000 books.

Amar Mahal Palace Museum (Jammu)

The Museum is situated in the Pink Hall of Mubarak Mandi complex.

Jammu and Kangra schools of paintings form the rich collection of the museum.

Another attraction of the museum is a gold plated bow and arrow belonging to the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.

The museum also has on display an array of carpentry tools, hand written manuscripts of Shahnama and Sikendernama (written in Persian) and a Takri script inscribed stone plate.

Dogra Art Museum (Jammu)

Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala

Shivalik Fossil Park, Saketi

Library of Tibetan Works Archives, Dharamsala• The Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (LTWA) is a Tibetan library . The library

was founded by Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama on June 11, 1970 and is considered one of the most important libraries and institutions of Tibetan works in the world.

The library contains sources which were relocated from Tibet during the 1959 escape, including important Tibetan Buddhist manuscripts and archives related the Tibets history, politics, culture and even art.

It possesses more than 80,000 manuscripts, books and documents, over 600 thangkas and statues and other artifacts of Buddhist heritage, 6,000 photographs, and many other materials.

The primary objective of the library is to provide a comprehensive cultural resource of the highest standard and to promote an environment to facilitate research and to exchange of knowledge.

The third floor of the library contains a museum (opened in 1974) containing notable artifacts such as a three-dimensional carved wooden mandala of Avalokiteshvara.

Virasat-e-Khalsa, Anandpur Sahib.

Sanghol Museum, Sanghol.

Archaelogical museum, Rupnagar

Sikh Ajaibghar, Balongli.

Central Sikh Museum, inside Harmindar Sahib complex, Amristar.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh Museum, Amritsar.

Angol Sikh War Memorial, Ferozeshah

Hoshiarpur Archaeological Museum in Vishvesvaranand

Shahed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh Museum , Khatkar Kalan

Rural Museum, Punjab Agricultural University.

Qila Mubarak Patiala, Museum of Armoury & Chaneliers

Art Gallery at Sheesh Mahal

Sports Museum, NetajiSubhash National Institute of Sports, Patiala.

Guru Teg Bahadur Museum, ShriAnandpur Sahib.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh War Museum, Ludhiana.

Vishva Bandhu Institute of Sanskrit and IndologicalStudies(Sadhu Ashram), Hoshiarpur

Virasat-e-Khalsa is a museum located in Anandpur Sahib.

After thirteen years of construction it was inaugurated on November 25, 2011 and opened to the public on November 27, 2011

The museum gives an insight to the events that took place in Punjab ( five hundred years ago) that gave birth to the Sikhism and finally the Khalsa Panth.

The museum aims to illuminate the vision of the Gurus, their message of peace and brotherhood and the culture and heritage of Punjab.[

The museum is intended to commemorate 500 years of Sikh history and the 300th anniversary of the Khalsa, the scriptures written by the 10th and last living Guru of Sikhism, Guru Gobind Singh Ji.

Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports is known as National Institute of Sports(NIS)

It is the Academic Wing of the Sports Authority of India (SAI) and Asia's largest Sports Institute.

Founded in 1961.

In January 1973, the Institute was renamed as Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports over 268 acres.

NIS is housed in the Old Moti BaghPalace of the royal family of Patiala State, which was purchased by Government of India after Independence of India.

National Institute of Sports (Patiala)

The Archaeological Museum is situated about 40 kms north east of Chandigarh on the Rupnagar .

It was opened to public in the year 1998.

The museum houses the archaeological remains of excavated site near Ropar, the first Harappan site excavated in Independent India.

The excavation revealed a cultural sequence from Harappan to medieval times.

Important exhibits include antiquities of Harappan times, Painted Grey ware culture, Saka, Kushana, Gupta times such as VinaVadini (lady playing on vina), copper and bronze implements, ring stone, yakshiimage, gold coins of Chandragupta.

Archaelogical Museum, Rupnagar

Jaigarh Fort museum ,jaipur

Pilani Birla Museum

Ajmer Government Museum

Alwar Government Museum

Amer (Jaipur) Archaeological Museum

Bairat Virat Nagar Museum

Bharatiya Lok Kala Mandal, Udaipur

Bharatpur Covernaient Museum

City Palace, Jaipur

Fort Museum, Junagarh Fort, Bikaner

Ganga Golden Jubilee Museum, Bikaner

Chittaurgarh - Fateh Prakash Palace Museum

Dungarpur Museum

Jaipur - Albert Hall Museum

Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur

Hawa Mahal Museum – Jaipur

Maharaja Sawai Man Singh JiMuseum, Jaipur

Jaisalmer Folklore Museum

Jaisalmer - Government Museum

Jhalawar - Government Museum

Jodhpur - Government Museum

Jodhpur - Mehrangarh Fort Museum

Jodhpur - Umaid BhawanPalace Museum

Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute, Jodhpur

Rajasthan State Archives, Bikaner

• It is one of the most spectacular forts on the hill top and the museum is located in the Fort.

• Museum gives a splendours image of the Rajputana and Mughal architecture and way of their lives.

• It is one of the unique showcase of the Rajasthani Culture and regime.

• One can see the royalness of Rajasthan in this Museum.

• The museum consists of three halls :

Hall of Warriors (meetings were held)

Armoury Hall (showcases the Royal Armory -the Sword, the Shields, the cannon balls, guns and muskets)

Painting Hall (paintings of the Royal family, the war scenes, the paintings of dances and festivals).

Jaigarh Fort Museum (Rajasthan)

• This museum is divided into three main sections: the Textile Gallary in Mubarak Mahal the Arms Gallary and the Art Gallery in the Diwan Khana.• The most popular amongst the collection is the oversized

garment, the atam sukh of Maharaja Sawai Madho Singh.• Few cabinets containing samples of glassware, hookah bases,

rose water sprinklers, bowls and cups. • It contains Katar, a two-sided blade with a grip hanle,

weapons, shields, swords, spears, daggers, knives and other beautiful but deadly instruments of aggression and destruction.

• There are two large silver jars which are recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as ‘the largest single pieces of silver in the world’ (ht. 1.6mts. and circumference 4.5 mts. with a capacity of 9000 lts).

It has a representative collection of sculptures of the region, paintings and manuscripts and a number of articles belonging to the royal family of Alwar, such as textiles, royal robes, turbans and ceremonial gowns.

Items from the palace, such as hookah stands, fly whisks, pen holders, plates, boxes and ornamental vases gives an eclectic tastes of 19th

century of Indian royalty.

The museum has a large display of arms, including ornamental and ceremonial shields inlaid with gold and silver.

Swords and the katar (dagger) with a variety of different types of hilts - some worked with metals, some ivory, even walrus bone, crystal and jade inlaid with precious stones.

The Government museum (alwar)

• It is inside the confines of the HAWA MAHAL and built by Maharajah SawaiPratap Singh in 1799.

• It has a honeycomb structure just like the Palace. It itself has the windows made for the easy passage of air throughout the year.

• Famously known as the Palace of Winds, it has thousands of small windows.

• If you look from outside, from a distance, it looks like a beehive.

• There are two gallaries :

• Armory Gallery : From swords to knives and the war dress to the cutter are displayed.

• Coin Gallery : As the kings came and went by, they left their mark in the form of the coins.

Hawa Mahal Museum (Jaipur)

Museum of Uttarakhand

The Forest Research Institute is an oldest institute of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education and is a premier institution in the field of forestry research in India.

In 1991, it was declared a deemed university by the University Grants Commission.

There are six sections in the museum: Pathology Museum Social Forestry Museum Silvi culture Museum Timber Museum Non-Wood Forest Products Museum Entomology Museum

The Forest Research Institute (Dehradun)

Trunk of a 700+ Year Old Tree in Museum Forest Products

Tree Cutting Tools Gun Sample

National Archives Museum

Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi

Indian Air Force Museum, Palam, Delhi

Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum, New Delhi

National Gandhi Museum, New Delhi

Gandhi Smriti, New Delhi

National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi

National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, New Delhi

National Museum, New Delhi

National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi

National Rail Museum, New Delhi

National Science Centre, Delhi

Parliament Museum, New Delhi

Sulabh International Museum of Toilets, New Delhi

Teen Murti Bhavan, New Delhi

Sanskriti Kendra Museum, Delhi

Shankar's International Dolls Museum, Delhi

National Rail Museum, New Delhi

National Science Centre, Delhi

Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi

Parliament Museum, New Delhi

Teen Murti Bhavan, New Delhi

Sanskriti Kendra Museum, Delhi

Shankar's International Dolls Museum, Delhi

Sulabh International Museum of Toilets, New Delhi.

The National Museum is one of the largest museums in India.

Established in 1949, it holds variety of articles ranging from pre-historic era to modern works of art. It functions under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.

The museum is situated on the corner of Janpath and Maulana Azad Road.

The Museum has around 200,000 works of art, both of Indian and foreign origin, covering over 5,000 years.

It represents almost all disciplines of art: Archaeology (Sculptures in Stone, Bronze & Terracotta), Arms, Armour, Decorative Arts, Jewellery, Manuscripts, Miniatures, Textiles, Numismatics, Epigraphy, Central Asian Antiquities, Anthropology, Pre-Columbian American and Western Art Collections.

Arms from Harappancivilization

One of 11 skeletons found from Rakhigarhi

The NATIONAL ARCHIVES is an entity of the office of Department of Culture under the ministry of Tourism and Culture. It is the depository of the old records of Govt. of India.

The documents kept here is for the use of the Administrators and the scholars. But then it is also open for the Common man to see.

Its a reflection of the past and it projects the country with all its developments. All the different facets of the country are enclosed in the premises of this museum.

Situated in at the Rajpath and Janpath junction near the Indira Gandhi National Center for Arts and Culture it stands in the heart of India - New Delhi.

In the National Archives Gallery you can go through :

»Ain-i-Akbari

»Bhagwat Gita»Bengal Smoke Nuisance Bill»Certificate of marriage»Dictionary in Eight Languages»Execution of Mangal Pandey»Letter of Tipu Sultan

This museum made in the honour of Nehruji, is a reflection of the lifestyle and life of Jawahar Lal Nehru.

It was the residence of the Pundit Jawahar Lal Nehru but now it has been converted into a Museum to keep alive the memories of him. It is also known as Teen MurthiHouse.

In the Nehru Memorial Museum we can see:»Gift Gallery : The royal Baggis (Chariots and Coaches in colors of red and gold.»Armoury Gallery : It has on its display the Sawai Jai Singh pistol, Rekhla (miniature canon), Gunpowder flasks, Howdahs (Elephant seat) and night polo ball. There is quite a range of them.»Manuscripts Art Gallery : There is a collection of rare manuscripts. These are divided into two sections. The individual correspondences and the institutional records.»Audio and Video clips : It also houses the memories of Jawahar Lal Nehru in the form of his Audio and Video Clippings which are the rare ones like Nehrus’ Childhood, his College Days, his budding days in Indian Politics, his speech etc.

Nehru Memorial Museum and liabrary

Government Museum, Mathura

Allahabad Museum, Allahabad

Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences, Aligarh

Kanpur Sangrahalaya, Kanpur

Rashtriya Dalit Prerna Sthal and Green Garden, Noida

Sarnath Museum, Sarnath

Swaraj Bhavan (old Anand Bhavan), Allahabad

Government Museum, commonly referred as Mathura museum is an archaeological museum.

The museum was founded in 1874.

Initially it was known as Curzon Museum of Archaeology, then Archaeology Museum, Mathura, and finally changed to the Government Museum, Mathura.

The museum houses artifacts pottery, sculptures, paintings, and coins primarily from in and around Mathura, plus discoveries made by colonial archaeologists like Alexander Cunningham..

The museum is famous for ancient sculptures of the Mathura school dating from 3rd century BC to 12th century AD., during Kushan Empire and Gupta Empire.

Today it is one of the leading museums of Uttar Pradesh.

Government Museum, Mathura

Baroda Museum & Picture Gallery, Vadodara

Calico Museum of Textiles, Ahmedabad

Watson Museum, Rajkot

Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya, Ahmedabad

Gujarat Science City, Ahmedabad

Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum, Ahmedabad

Kaba Gandhi No Delo, Rajkot

Kirti Mandir, Porbandar

Kutch Museum, Bhuj

Maharaja Fateh Singh Museum, Vadodara

Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad

Sanskar Kendra, Ahmedabad

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Memorial, Ahmedabad

Swaminarayan Museum, Ahmedabad

This museum is located in Sayaji Bagh, a garden that is popular with the inhabitants of Baroda (or Vadodara), who picnic and stroll there.

This museum was opened in 1921.

The collection in the museum belongs to the former ruler of the state, Maharaja Sayaji Roa III.

During travel and spending holidays in abroad Maharaja Sayajicollected paintings and sculptures as well as acquired many Western habits and customs.

There are galleries with displays of Asian Art from Burma, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, China and Japan - bronzes, ivory and pottery, and a painted gilt wooden statue of the Bodhisattva.

It presents the Indian textiles, in the galleries. It was founded in 1949 and is the idea of Ms.Gira Sarabhai who initiated the collection of rare,exquisite fabrics from different parts of India. Textile can be broadly divided into thosefabricated from cotton, wool and silk. Indigenoussilk was produced by the tribes of the north-eastern states like Assam, Bihar and Orissaregions. The museum has some outstanding samples ofikat from Gujarat, referred to there as patola, inwhich both the warp and weft threads carry‘colour coding’. Painting on cloth, called kalamkari (‘penwork’), was another popular art. The Indian shawl, of great variety in weave anddesign, was one item of male and femalecostume that captured the imagination of theartist.

The calico museum of Textiles (Ahmedabad)

Kutch Museum in Bhuj is the oldest museum of Gujarat.

The museum was initially formed as a part of the School of Arts established by Maharao Khengarji III, which was founded on 1 July 1877. The museum was earlier known as Fergusson Museum.

The museum has the largest existing collection of Kshatrapa inscriptions, dating to the 1st century AD.

An interesting collection of coins, including the kori, Kutch's local currency till 1948.

This museum has almost 11 sectioions.

There is also an excellent section which covers classical and musical instruments like Nagfani, Morchang etc. put on the display of the museum.

A section of the museum is devoted to tribal cultures, with many examples of ancient artifacts, folk arts and crafts and information about tribal peoples.

The Kutch Museum (Bhuj)

On the ground floor of the museum, in the centre room, ‘Airavat’ is displayed. ‘Airavat’ is a carved, wooden, snow white Indian elephant with seven tusks. ‘Airavat’ was prepared in Mandvi, in the 18th century, in the worship of Tirthankar. The rest of its body is painted with flowers. The Indian Government issued a postal stamp in 1978, depicting this ‘Airavat’, under the postal series `Treasures of Museum'.

Sabarmati Ashram (also known as Gandhi Ashram, Harijan Ashram, or Satyagraha Ashram) is located in the Sabarmati, adjoining the Ashram Road, on the banks of the river Sabarmati, four miles from the town hall.

This was one of the residence of Mahatma Gandhi, who lived there for about twelve years along with his wife, Kasturba Gandhi.

Gandhi led the Dandi march also known as the Salt Satyagraha on 12 March 1930. In recognition of the significant influence that this march had on the Indian independence movement the Indian government has established the ashram as a national monument.

Sabarmati Ashram (Ahemdabad)

Sabarmati Ashram in 1948 Statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the ashram

Warli Art at Sabarmati AshramBack view of Mahatma Gandhi's house

The Watson Museum in Rajkot is a museum of human history and culture.

It has collections of precious objects of colonial period of India and History of Rajkot.

It is amongst the largest and most comprehensive museum in State of Gujarat.

The museum is set up in the Queen Victoria memorial institute buildings located in Jubilee Garden, Rajkot.

The Watson Museum exhibits copies of artifacts from Mohenjodaro, natural history, 13th century carvings, temple statues, costumes and design of the houses of the local tribal people. The Watson Museum also houses an excellent collection of traditional, archaeological items and coins.

Watson Museum, Rajkot

• Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal

• State Museum, Bhopal

• Central Archaeological Museum, Gwalior

• Regional Centre, Bhopal

• Central Museum, Indore

• Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal

• Maharaja Chhatrasal Museum, Dhubela

• Rani Durgawati Museum, Jabalpur

The Bharat Bhawan, literally ‘Abode or Home of India’, was conceived and established as a cultural complex in the early 1980s.

This museum-library, theatre and music centre has played a vital role in the contemporary art scene, attracting artists and performers from all over India and abroad.

The museum specializes in two areas: contemporary art, paintings and sculptures by various eminent Indian artists, and tribal and regional art forms from the area of Madhya Pradesh.

Importance have been given to folk and tribal art, bronzes, terracottas, toys and ritual objects.

It regularly organizes special exhibitions, programmes and ‘happenings’ that may interest the visitor.

The State Museum of Bhopal is the best-designed museums in India.

It was inaugurated in November 2005 . The museum has 16 different theme

galleries, showcasing the State's sculptural masterpieces, pre-historic articles and fossils, excavated objects, epigraphs, manuscripts, paintings, royal collection, textile, documents, postal stamps, autographs, miniature paintings, coins, arms and weapons, articles associated with India's freedom struggle.

The rare coins displayed in numismatics gallery reflect the stability and prosperity of the rulers. The earliest coins are the silver and copper punch marked coins form 2nd century B.C.

State Museum, Bhopal

Set up by Maharaja Madhavrao Scindia and it was formally inaugurated in 1922.

It is one of the finest museums in India, known in particular for its collection of sculptures. In all it houses around 6000 artifacts which are displayed in its 28 galleries.

The collection includes images, coins, pottery and terracotta, paintings, inscriptions and weapons. Dating from 2nd Cent. B.C. to 17th Cent. A.D. These have been collected from Gwalior, Bhind, Morena, Guna, Vidisha, Shivpuri, Ujjain, Mandsaur districts and other nearby areas.

The collection of images includes the world famous Shal-Bhanjika, Natraj, Ardhanarishwar, and Trimurti (10th cent. A.D.)

The inscription of Kumargupta (5th cent. A.D.) is an important exhibit. The weapons collection of the museum boasts of double barrel guns and camel guns.

Central Archaeological Museum, Gwalior

Prince of Whales Museum, Mumbai

Antarang – Sex Health Information Art Gallery, Mumbai

The Arts Trust – Institute of Contemporary Indian Art, Mumbai

Ballard Bunder Gatehouse, Mumbai

Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai

Cavalry Tank Museum, Ahmednagar

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj VastuSangrahalaya, Mumbai

Cowasji Jehangir Hall, Mumbai

Darshan Museum, Pune

Indian Institute for Research in Numismatic Studies, Nasik

Mani Bhavan, Mumbai

Nagpur Central Museum

Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai

Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum, Pune

Raman Science Centre, Nagpur

Siddhagiri Gramjivan Museum (KaneriMath), Kolhapur

Shree Chhatrapati ShahuMuseum, Kolhapur

INS Vikrant (R11), Mumbai

National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai

Mahatma Phule Museum, Pune

Joshi's Museum of Miniature Railway, Pune

The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya(CSMVS), is known as Prince of Wales Museum of Western India.

It is the main museum in Mumbai. It was founded in the early years of the 20th century by prominent citizens of Bombay, with the help of the government.

It is located in the heart of South Mumbai near the Gateway of India. The museum was renamed in the 1990s or early 2000s after Shivaji, the founder of Maratha Empire.

The museum building is built in the Indo-Saracenic style of architecture, include the elements of other styles of architecture like the Mughal, Maratha and Jain.

The museum collection comprises approximately 50,000 artefacts. The collection of the museum is categorized primarily into three sections: art, archaeology and natural history.

In 2008, the Museum installed two new galleries, displaying the "Karl and Meherbai Khandalavala collection" and "the Coins of India".

It also has a collection of European paintings, Chinese and Japanese porcelain, ivory and jade artefacts.Themuseum also has sections dedicated to arms and armour and another to Nepali and Tibetan art.

Tipu Sultan Museum, Srirangapatna Government Museum, Bangalore

Kempegowda Museum, Bangalore

Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bangalore

HAL heritage and Aerospace Museum, Bangalore

Karnataka Folk Museum, Bangalore

Gandhi Bhavan

Madras Sappers Museum & Archives, Bangalore

NIMHANS Brain Museum , Bangalore

Law Museum, Bangalore

Philatelic Museum, Bangalore

Legends Motorcycle Museum, Bangalore

Regional Museum of Natural History, Mysore

Folklore Museum, Mysore

Jayachamarajendra Museum, Mysore

Mysore Rail Museum, Mysore

Government Museum, Rangaiahna Bagilu, Chitradurga

Government Museum, ShivappanayakaPalace, Shimoga

Government Museum, Hassan

Government Museum, Madikeri

Srimanthi Bai Memorial Government Museum, Bijai

Government Museum, Gadag

K.R.C.M. Government Museum, Kittur

Government Museum, Hoovina Hadagali

Government Museum, Raichur

Government Museum, Gulbarga

Government Museum, Basavakalyana, Bidar District

Museum of Anatomy and Pathology

It is in the memory of a remarkable historical personality, ‘Tipu Sultan’.

The museum consists of oil paintings, pencil sketches, aquatints and engravings, coins and medals, costumes, furniture, arms, etc.

A portrait of Tipu Sultan depicts him wearing a turban, a striped shirt. A necklace, a girth belt and a stone-studded cross belt to which is attached a sword. The artist was G.F. Cherry who painted it in 1792.

Coins of various denominations on view include Double paisa, Half paisa, Quarter paisa and One-eighth paisa issued by TipuSultan from different mints at Bangalore, Calicut, Chitaldurg, Dindigul, Gooty and Srirangapatna. Medals of different metals like silver, copper and bronze issued by the English, commemorating their victory over Tipu are also exhibited.

Tipu Sultan Museum, Srirangapatna

Goa Chitra Museum, Benaulim

Goa Science Centre, Panaji

Goa State Museum, Panaji

Naval Aviation Museum (India), Vasco da Gama

Goa State Museum is located in Panaji, which is the capital city of Goa.

This new museum complex, located in the EDC Complex in Patto, was inaugurated on June 18th, 1996. Prior to 1996, artifacts was set up in the Department of Archives in Goa by the Archeology & Museum unit. Thereafter, a small museum was opened to the public on September 29th, 1977 in a rented building at St. Inez, also in Panaji.

The museum currently has around 8,000 artifacts on display, which include stone sculptures, wooden objects, carvings, bronzes, paintings, manuscripts, rare coins, numismatic collection, and anthropological objects. It is well known among other museums for its collection of Hindu and Jain artifacts and sculptures.

The Goa State Museum currently has fourteen galleries:

Sculpture Gallery, Christian Art Gallery, Printing History Gallery, Banerji Art Gallery, Religious Expression Gallery, Cultural Anthropology, Contemporary Art Gallery, Numismatics Gallery, Goa’s Freedom Struggle Gallery, MenezesBraganza Gallery, Furniture Gallery, Natural Heritage of Goa Gallery, Environment & Development Gallery, Geology Gallery.

Plates used for printing on newspapers and books

Sculpture at the entrance of the gate

• The Government Museum, Thiruvananthapuram

• Arakkal Museum, Ayikkara

Teak Museum, Nilambur

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Police Museum, Kollam

KrishnapuramPalace, Kayamkulam

Indo-Portuguese Museum, Kochi

Vallathol Museum, Thrissur

Wayanad Heritage Museum, Ambalavayal

Mural Art Museum, Thrissur

Archaeological Museum, Thrissur, Thrissur

Vaidyaratnam AyurvedaMuseum, Thrissur

Indian Business Museum, Kozhikode

Kerala Soil Museum, Thiruvananthapuram

Napier Museum, Thiruvananthapuram

Pazhassi Raja Archaeological Museum, Kozhikode

Hill Palace, Thrippunithura

This museum was founded in 1857. The area around it has been laid out as a park and zoological garden.

The art gallery contains bronzes which shows the marked style of Kerala as quite clearly distinct from that of the bronzes of Tamil Nadu where, under the Cholas, bronzes tended to be tall and almost unnaturally slim.

The Kerala bronzes of the same period are shorter and stockier, with characteristic physical features –squarish jaws and sharp eyes and nose; they also tend to be more ornate, with heavy jewels and elaborate clothin

Vishnu Srinivasa (9th century, Kerala) is one of the oldest pieces in this museum.

Figures of Nataraja, various devis and other follow in the same style, with observable jewellery and other elegant details.

The wooden chariots displayed in the museum are richly carved with sculptures and decorative design.

The Government Museum, Thiruvananthapuram

Gandhi Memorial Museum, Madurai

Gass Forest Museum, Coimbatore

Government Museum, Chennai (Largest in the state)

Government Museum, Karur

Government Museum, Cuddalore

Government Museum, Pudukkottai (Second largest in the state)

Mahakavi Bharathi Memorial Library, Erode

Regional Railway Museum, Chennai

Saraswathi Mahal Library, Thanjavur

INS Vela (S40)

Vivekanandar Illam, Chennai

Railway Heritage Centre, Tiruchirappalli

Government Museum, Tiruchirappalli

• The Government Museum or Madras Museum is a museum of human history and culture located in Chennai.

• Started in 1851, it is the second oldest museum in India after the Indian Museum in Kolkata. It is particularly rich in archaeological and numismatic collections.

• The museum complex consisting of six buildings and 46 galleries covers an area of around 16.25 acres (66,000 m²) of land.

• The objects displayed in the museum cover a variety of artifacts and objects covering diverse fields including archeology, numismatics, zoology, natural history, sculptures, palm-leaf manuscripts and Amravati paintings.

Government Museum, Chennai

Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad

Health Museum, Hyderabad

AP State Archaeology Museum, Hyderabad

Birla Science Museum, Hyderabad

City Museum, Hyderabad

Nizam Museum, Hyderabad

State Archaeological Museum is constructed in 1920 .

It includes a wide range of stone and metal sculptures that have been collected from ancient and medieval Andhra.

There are five galleries and one pavilion at the museum that includes a rare collection of Ajanta and Deccani painting.

The Egyptian mummy is as old as the Satavahanaperiod (second century BC). You also view the Buddhist and Jain relics and sculpture of different times and empires.

The various galleries comprised in the museum are

Buddist gallery

Brahmanical & Jain gallery

Arms & Armour gallery

Numissmatics gallery

Ajanta gallery

State Archaelogical Museum, Hyderabad

The Health Museum, Hyderabad is located near Public Gardens.

As we enter in the museum we can find the words of Jawaharlal Nehru which are displayed at the entrance of the museum. The words and the museum are 50 years old.

It started in 1948 and since then there were no add-ons, no deductions, no updating or divisions in the museum.

Museum still bears the same ancient look of the late 40s. The museum symbolizes the poverty, ignorance and lack of dedication, commitment, progress and improvement prevailing during that time.

The two sections of the Health Museum in Hyderabad include nutrition and health issues and Motherhood and Childbirth.

The first section deals with topics like nutrition, health (school and industrial), TB, leprosy, anatomy, cancer, malaria, immunization and such others. The second hall of the museum is dedicated to Motherhood and Childbirth.

The museum includes a series of wooden boards that comprises: Details about how to maintain and improve health, Photographs of a variety of medical discoverers, List of eminent visitors at the museum

Health Museum, Hyderabad

This is an art museum.

It has a collection of sculptures, paintings, carvings, textiles, manuscripts, metallic artefacts, carpets, clocks, and furniture from Japan, China, Burma, Nepal, India, Persia, Egypt, Europe, and North America. The museum's collection was sourced from the property of the Salar Jung family.

A good number of Indian Miniature Paintings in early style of Western India (14th and 15th Centuries) representing Krishna Leela themes are also form part of the Museum’s Collection.

There are good number of Arabic and Persian Manuscripts dated to 19th century and Shah-nama by Furadausi are also among the valuable collection of the Museum.

A rare manuscript entitled ‘Lilawati’ on mathematics and an ancient medical encyclopedia transcribed in India is in the collection.

The salar jung museum

Established in 1917 and in 1930 it is moved in a building which is mixture of European, Mughal and Rajput architectural styles.

Excellent collection of stone and terracotta sculpture of the Mauryan and subsequent periods.

Yakshi from Didarganj (2000 yrs.) is the most important and significant sculpture.

Charming baked clay toy animals and figurines of women, couples and deities are prepared from moulds are also displayed there.

The State Museum, Patna

• The Asiatic Society

• Birla Industrial & Technological Museum

• Indian Museum

• Marble Palace

• Nehru Museum of Science and Technology

• Netaji Bhawan

• State Archaeological Gallery

• It was established in 1959. This museum is managed by the National Council of Science Museums.

It is located at Gurusaday Road in Kolkata.

Some of the important works, which are done by this museum, are as follows:

Show the growth of science and technology

Gather, restore and preserve important historical objects

Expand and fabricate model exhibits

Enhancement and spread of science education in schools and colleges

Prepare teachers in the use of scientific but low cost teaching aids

Provide aid to schools, colleges, universities and technical institutions

Take initiative to popularize science and technology in urban and rural areas of the country.

Birla Industrial and Technological Museum

The Indian Museum is considered as the ninth oldest regular museum of the world.

This Museum in Kolkata was established in 1814 and was transferred to the present building in 1878.

There are about sixty galleries of Anthropology, Geology, Art, Archaeology, Zoology and Botany sections occupying over ten thousand square feet area.

The most interesting gallery of the Indian Museum is the painting gallery which displays the first painting illustrated on a palm-leaf manuscript.

Other collection of the miniature paintings collected from various parts of India includes:

Mughal miniatures

Kangra-kalam paintings

Kalighat patas (folk art of Bengal)

It also cosists about fifty thousand books and journals.

Indian Museum

Assam State Museum, Guwahati

Mayong Central Museum and Emporium, Mayong

Shankardev Kalakshetra, Guwahati

The Assam State Museum is located in the southern end of DighaliPukhuri tank which is in the heart of Guwahati city,Assam.

The Museum was established by the Kamarupa AnusandhanSamiti (Assam Research Society) in 1940.

In the year 1953, it was taken over by the State Govt. The sculptures from the Assam region fall into four principal

categories - stone, wood, metal and terracotta, Miscellaneous, Natural History, Crafts, Anthropology & Folk Art & Arms section. The collections which are on display here, are very rare.

The library in Assam State Museum was established in 1985, is rich in its stenographic collections. There are various periodicals, journals and books relating to art, culture, mythology, biography, encyclopedic works and even the Asiatic Society journals of the country.

Manipur State Museum

This museum has a fairly good display of the state’s heritage and a collection of portraits of Manipur’s former rulers. Items of special interests are costumes, arms and weapons, relics and historical documents.

Sekta Archaeological Living Museumlocally known as “Sekta Kei” and far from 16kms from Imphal . It is a place where evidence of the practice of secondary burial was discovered.

Museum of Arunachal Pradesh Jawaharlal Nehru Museum is the state museum

of Arunachal Pradesh, in Itanagar.

Established in the 1980s, it showcases aspects of tribal life .

These include clothing, headdress, weapons, handicraft, music instruments, jewellery and other artifacts of daily use and culture, besides archeological finds.

The museum houses an extensive ethnographic collection, including traditional art, musical instruments, religious objects, and handicrafts, like wood carving and cane products, while the first floor has archaeological objects found in Ita Fort, Noksparbat and Malinithan in West Siang district.

Apart from its collection, the museum runs a workshop for traditional cane products at its Handicrafts Centre. The museum shop sells tribal handicrafts.

Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar

Museum of Tripura• The Ujjayanta Palace is a former royal palace of

the Tripura (princely state) and also served as the meeting place of the Tripura Legislative Assembly until 2011 and now a museum.

• It was constructed between 1899 and 1901 by then Tripura king, Maharaja Radha KishoreManikya.

• The name Ujjayanta Palace was given by Rabindranath Tagore.

• The museum showcases the lifestyle, arts, culture, tradition and utility crafts, beside the customs and practices of various communities residing in northeast India.

Tripura State Museum, Ujjayanta Palace, Agartala

Don Bosco Museum

Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous Cultures (DBCIC) is a unique venture of the Salesians of Don Bosco in North East India to develop expert facilities for the preservation and promotion of numerous beautiful and diverse indigenous cultures of the region, of India in particular and in communion with indigenous cultures anywhere in the world.

At present DBCIC has several distinct operational areas:

Exhibition of Cultural Artifacts: The Museum of Indigenous Cultures' exhibition of cultural artifacts consists of the different galleries along with excellent paintings depicting various aspects of the cultures of North East India .

Study and Research: DBCIC organizes study and research on themes connected with the indigenous cultures of North East India. The presence of a very large library adjacent to DBCIC with specialized volumes on the North East and adequate facilities to render study and research satisfying.

Culture Related Publications and Activities: Within a few years DBCIC has brought out 12 publications and have organized several workshops, courses and seminars.

Knowledge-Sharing: Besides what is mentioned above about publication and culture-related activities, visitors to the Don Bosco Museum can access knowledge on indigenous cultures with the help of multimedia facilities such as touch screens, plasma panels, computer presentations and documentaries.