Museums in Rajasthan
Ajmer Museum
Situated in the heart of old city and close to the railway station the museum
is housed in the beautiful fort and palace built by the Mughal Emperor Jahagir
in 1616. What is today commonly known as Magazine is the palace quarters where
the emperors lived. After the British occupation in 1818 and during the first
world war of Independence in 1857 it was used as the Rajputana Arsenal by the
British which gave the name magazine.
Amer Archaeological Museum
Located in the Dil-e-A-aram Gardens, of Amer, the ancient capital of Jaipur,
and established in 1949. Prior to this, the escavated material from Rairh, Bairat,
Sambhar, Nagar etc. and the sculptures and epigraphs collected from various
sites in the erstwhile Jaipur State were housed at Vidyadhar Gardens in Purana
Ghat.
Alwar Museum
House in the old city place, it has a unique collection of arms, bidri work
acquered and ivory work, musical instruments, stuffed animals, beautiful brass
and pottery works from Jaipur, Multan, Bengal and Ceylon, miniature paintings
and Persian and Sanskrit manuscripts.
Bharatpur Museum
Located in the centre of the famous Lohagarh Fort, the Bharatpur Museum houses
a rich collection of archaeological wealth of the nearby areas as well as from
the old Bharatpur State.
Bikaner Fort Museum
Ganga Mahal, the imposing halls added by Maharaja Ganga Singh, now houses the
Fort Museum. It contains a fine collection of antique Rajput weaponry, jade
handle daggers, camel hide dhals (shiedls) and inliad handguns and camel guns.Gold
and siliver howdahs, jhulas, palkis and a first world war biplane are on view.
Ganga Golden Jubilee
Museum
Forts of the early 20th century Lallgarh Palace have been converted as a Museum
containing a large numbers of items used and collected by Maharaja Ganga Singh
and his successors. Old photographs, trophies, shikar objects early cameras
and movie projectors and weapons used by Maharaja Karni Singh the great sportsman
are on view here.
Shri Sardul Museum and Anup
Library
The Anup Library contains an extremely rare and valuable collection of Sanskrit
manuscripts brought back from the Deccan by Raja Anup Singh in the 17th century.
Virat Nagar Museum
Virat Nagar museum Virat Nagar was the capital of the legendary Matsayadesh.
Frequent refences of Matsayadesh have been made in the Indian epic- the Mahabharat.
In the epic period, the area around the district of Jaipur, Alwar and Bharatpur
came to be known as Matsayadesh with Virat Nagar as its capital. The museum,
although not very large has the richest collection.
