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Home ❯ Travel ❯ Explore ❯ Museums in North India

MUSEUMS IN NORTH INDIA TOURISM

While most people visit North India for its scenic beauty, one cannot ignore the fact that the Northern states of India have a rich history too. What more, many states even house museums. While some museums exhibit relics, there’s one with Losel dolls, and each of the others with special exhibitions. Here’s a list of museums that you can visit in North India.

Albert Hall Museum

Albert Hall Museum is one of the oldest museums in Rajasthan.

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Mayo college and museum

Considered the largest college museum in the world, The Mayo College Museum has over 18 rooms. A rich and valuable collection of old paintings, sculptures, photographs, coins, stuffed birds and butterflies are housed in this museum. 

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Archaeological Museum in Chitt

The Museum is another attraction of Chittorgarh and houses paintings, artifacts and sculptures. The museum is located at the eastern end of Banbir-ki Diwar and houses number of historical artifacts from the ruins of Chittorgarh forts. One can also see artifacts relating to Buddhism and Hinduism which were unearthed during…

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Nalanda Archaeological Museum

Established in 1971, the museum houses relics unearthed from the Nalanda University. The museum is divided into four main galleries housing 13463 relics that have been excavated from 349 sites. The main hall included 16 sculptures of Trailokya Vijay, Maitreya, Buddha in Varad, Dharmachakra and Bhumisparsh postures, Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, Parshvanath and Nagaraj sculptures,…

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Baghel Museum

The Baghel Museum in Bandhavgarh holds all the personal belongings of the Maharaja of Rewa for display.You will also see the stuffed body of the first white tiger being spotted by the Maharaja of Rewa. Besides this, the museum also contains ancient hunting equipment by the Maharajas along with some of…

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Bhuri Singh Museum

Named after Raja Bhuri who had contributed his family’s collection of paintings, Bhuri Singh museum is amongst the most popular tourist attractions in Chamba. The museum houses a large collection of Guler-Kangra style of paintings. The museum also houses a collection of arms, armour, coins, costumes, musical instruments, ornaments, etc.…

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Corbett Museum

The former house of the legendary hunter and tracker-turned-conservationist Jim Corbett is now known as the Corbett Museum. It houses objects related to Jim’s Corbett’s life including manuscripts, fishing nets, maps, guns and also his last hunt. The bungalow is located at Choti Haldwani on the outskirts of Kaladhungi, which…

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Losel Doll Museum

Losel Doll Museum, the world's largest collection of Losel Dolls, is in the Norbulingka institute. These beautiful collectors' items are hand-crafted by monks of the Drepung Loseling monastery. The Losel Doll project was started in 1983 as a way of preserving the tradition of Tibetan costumes, while making innovative use…

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Wadia Institute of Himalayan G

A research center of Himalayan geology, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology was established in June 1968 in the Delhi university, and later moved to Dehradun in 1976. It houses a massive library boasting of a collection of over 20,000 books apart from research journals. A museum within the institute holds…

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Government Museum

The Government Museum holds various historical artefacts and the entire first floor is dedicated to Rani Laxmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi. It contains pictures, model caricatures, and also weapons of the bygone era.

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Himachal State Museum

Housed in a colonial building, the Shimla State museum has a great collection of paintings, idols and anthropological items.

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Stok Palace Museum

It is located about 14 km from Leh and houses royal artifacts like crowns, precious heirlooms, copper coins and prayer instruments. It also houses 16th century Thangkas which represent the life and teachings of Buddha.

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Sarnath Museum

Sarnath has excavated a rich lot of Buddhist sculptures comprising numerous Buddha and Bodhisattva images in the museum. Sarnath is famous for the magnificent Ashokan pillar which has four lions carved back-to-back. The Ashokan pillar is adopted by Indian constitution as our national emblem called Ashoka Chakra. 

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Patna Museum

Built in 1917 in Mughal and Rajput style of architecture, the museum houses several metal and stone sculptures of the Mauryan and Gupta era. One also get to see the Fist World War canon and a 16m long fossilised tree, which is about 200 million years old and is considered…

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