Museum of Bikaner, Rajasthan

Rajasthan Tour Travel > Rajasthan Museums

• JUNAGARH FORT MUSEUM
  Ganga Mahal, the imposing halls added by Maharaja Gailga Singh, now houses the Fort Museum. It contains a fine collection of antique Rajput, weaponry, jade handle daggers, camel hide d17als (shields) and inlaid handguns and camel guns. Cold and silver howdahs, jhulas, kis and a first world war biplane are on view. Other important objects include a pair of drums belonging to jamblioji, the saint who predicted the foundation of the dynasty by Rao Bika for 450 years. Photographs and items of personal use by Maharaja Ganga Singh and miniatures are also on view.

• GANGA GOLDEN JUBILEE MUSEUM
  Established near the lailgarh Palace in 1937 oil the eve of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Maharaja Gaiiga Singh this Museum now run by the Government of Rajasthan, was shifted to a new building in the Civil Lines in 1954. Some principal sections of the museum are: Maharaja Ganga Singh Memorial · local Arts and Crafts · History· Sculpture, Terracotta and Bronzes Armory · Miniature Paintings and Folk-Arts · Dr. L.P. Tessitori Memorial Section. Lithoprints of the British Interpretation of the war of Independence 1857.