Museums in Rajasthan
27 places in Rajasthan under museums. Collections worth going out of your way for.
Explore with dates- Ahar Cenotaphs and MuseumUdaipur, Rajasthan · Monuments & HeritageThe royal cremation ground of Mewar: 250 cenotaphs and a copper-age site under the village.
- Akal Wood Fossil ParkJaisalmer, Rajasthan · Rock & RappelJurassic tree trunks lying in the open, 17 km from Jaisalmer.
- Albert Hall MuseumJaipur, Rajasthan · MuseumsThe 1887 Indo-Saracenic state museum, with a real Egyptian mummy in the basement.
- Alwar City Palace and MuseumAlwar, Rajasthan · Palaces & HavelisA working collectorate with one of the best small manuscript and miniature museums in Rajasthan upstairs.
- Arabic & Persian Research InstituteTonk, Rajasthan · MuseumsThe manuscript library of the Nawabs of Tonk: Qurans, firmans and calligraphy.
- Arna Jharna Desert MuseumJodhpur, Rajasthan · MuseumsKomal Kothari's quarry museum of desert life, starting with a gallery of a hundred brooms.
- Bagore ki HaveliUdaipur, Rajasthan · Palaces & HavelisAn 18th-century haveli on the ghat, and the nightly Dharohar folk dance show in its courtyard.
- Bangur Museum, PaliPali, Rajasthan · MuseumsA small district museum of temple sculpture and coins, a fair companion to the Godwar sites.
- Bharatpur Palace and MuseumBharatpur, Rajasthan · MuseumsThe state museum inside the Iron Fort, with a painted bathhouse next door.
- City Palace JaipurJaipur, Rajasthan · Palaces & HavelisThe Kachwaha city palace of 1727, with the peacock gate and the two giant silver urns.
- City Palace, UdaipurUdaipur, Rajasthan · Palaces & HavelisFour centuries of Mewar palaces joined into one wall above Lake Pichola. Allow half a day.
- HaldighatiRajsamand, Rajasthan · Monuments & HeritageThe 1576 battlefield of Maharana Pratap and Akbar, with the tomb of his horse Chetak.
- Jhalawar Garh Palace and Bhawani NatyashalaJhalawar, Rajasthan · Palaces & HavelisA small state palace with a 1921 theatre where horses came up through the stage.
- Junagarh FortBikaner, Rajasthan · FortsA fort on the flat that was never taken, with the finest painted palaces in Bikaner.
- KalibanganHanumangarh, Rajasthan · Monuments & HeritageA Harappan city on the dead Ghaggar, with the oldest ploughed field in the world.
- Kota Garh Palace and MuseumKota, Rajasthan · Palaces & HavelisThe Kota palace on the Chambal, worth it for the Hadoti hunting miniatures alone.
- Lalgarh PalaceBikaner, Rajasthan · Palaces & HavelisGanga Singh's red sandstone palace, the Sadul museum in one wing and a hotel in the other.
- Mehrangarh FortJodhpur, Rajasthan · FortsRao Jodha's 1459 fort on the rock above Jodhpur, with the best-run fort museum in the state.
- National Research Centre on CamelBikaner, Rajasthan · Eco TourismThe camel farm on the edge of Bikaner. Go at four, eat the ice cream.
- NawalgarhJhunjhunu, Rajasthan · MuseumsThe town with the best-kept frescoes in Shekhawati, restored in the Podar Haveli Museum.
- Patwon ki HaveliJaisalmer, Rajasthan · Monuments & HeritageFive carved merchant havelis in one lane, the richest in Jaisalmer.
- ShilpgramUdaipur, Rajasthan · Villages & Hidden GemsA crafts village of real huts from four states. Come during the ten-day December fair.
- Soniji ki NasiyanAjmer, Rajasthan · Temples & ShrinesA Jain hall filled floor to ceiling with a gilded wooden model of the Jain cosmos.
- Sukh Mahal and Jait SagarBundi, Rajasthan · Palaces & HavelisThe lakeside pavilion where Kipling stayed, on a lotus lake outside the town.
- Thewa jewellery of PratapgarhPratapgarh, Rajasthan · Villages & Hidden GemsThe gold-on-glass jewellery that one Pratapgarh family has made since 1767. Watch it done.
- Umaid Bhawan PalaceJodhpur, Rajasthan · Palaces & HavelisA 1929 famine-relief palace in golden sandstone, one wing of it a museum you can walk into.
- Vintage and Classic Car CollectionUdaipur, Rajasthan · MuseumsThe Maharanas' garage of twenty vintage cars, most of them still running.
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