Museums in Bihar
14 places in Bihar under museums. Collections worth going out of your way for.
Explore with dates- Bhitiharwa Gandhi AshramWest Champaran, Bihar · Monuments & HeritageThe village school Gandhi and Kasturba ran in 1917 during the Champaran satyagraha.
- Bihar MuseumPatna, Bihar · MuseumsThe Didarganj Yakshi and the best-run museum in eastern India. Closed Mondays.
- Bodh Gaya Archaeological MuseumGaya, Bihar · MuseumsThe ASI museum holding the original railing pillars of the Mahabodhi Temple. Closed Fridays.
- Buddha Samyak Darshan MuseumVaishali, Bihar · MuseumsThe 2025 stupa complex where Vaishali's Buddha relics finally came home from Patna.
- Chandradhari MuseumDarbhanga, Bihar · MuseumsA zamindar's collection of ivory, brass and Mithila painting on the Mansarovar shore. Closed Mondays.
- Gandhi Sangrahalaya, MotihariEast Champaran, Bihar · MuseumsWhere the Champaran satyagraha started in April 1917: a museum, a pillar and the trial site.
- George Orwell's BirthplaceEast Champaran, Bihar · Monuments & HeritageThe opium-department bungalow where George Orwell was born in 1903.
- Khuda Bakhsh Oriental LibraryPatna, Bihar · MuseumsA 1891 library of 21,000 Persian and Arabic manuscripts on Ashok Rajpath. Closed Fridays.
- Nalanda Archaeological MuseumNalanda, Bihar · MuseumsThe ASI museum of finds from the Nalanda ruins. Closed Fridays.
- Patna MuseumPatna, Bihar · MuseumsJadu Ghar, the 1917 museum holding the relic casket from Vaishali. Closed Mondays.
- Ramchandra Shahi MuseumMuzaffarpur, Bihar · MuseumsMuzaffarpur's small district museum: Pala sculpture and Vaishali terracotta, usually empty.
- Vaishali Archaeological MuseumVaishali, Bihar · MuseumsThe four-room ASI museum that explains the mounds of Vaishali. Closed Fridays.
- Vikramshila MahaviharaBhagalpur, Bihar · Monuments & HeritageThe other great Pala university. A cruciform stupa, 208 cells, and almost no crowds.
- ZeradeiSiwan, Bihar · Monuments & HeritageThe village house where India's first President was born in 1884.
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