Tripura Government Museum

The Tripura Government Museum or the Tripura State Museum, Ujjayanta Palace, Agartala inside the Indian country of Tripura is housed inside the Ujjayanta Palace, former royal palace of the Tripura. It become first hooked up on 22 June 1970 as multicultural museum with emphasis on art and crafts of the country of Tripura, and shifted to the a lot large historical past edifice of the Ujjayanta Palace, opened in 1901. On 25 September 2013 a proper inauguration function turned into held to mark the outlet of the new museum by way of Hamid Ansari, the Vice President of India.

It is northeast India's biggest museum with a "national attitude at the same time as final centered on Tripura and northeast India". Sandstone sculptures of the Pilak web site, which represents a heterodox lifestyle of Hinduism and Buddhism of 9th to 13th century, are on display at the Tripura Government Museum. The museum had 4 unique halls when it changed into located within the center of the Agartala town. It become shifted to the brand new premises in September 2013 to the history palace in which there are now 22 show galleries.