 Mizoram State Museum | |
| Established | April 1977 |
|---|---|
| Location | Aizawl, Mizoram, India |
| Coordinates | 23°44′17″N 92°42′56″E / 23.7381°N 92.7156°E |
The Mizoram State Museum is in Aizawl, Mizoram, India. It is an ethnographic museum with multipurpose collections on display. There are five galleries: Textile Gallery, Ethnology, History, Anthropology, Natural History, and an Archaeology Terrace. The collection occupies four floors.
The museum was established in April 1977[1] by the Tribal Research Institute under Education Department. From 1989, it came under Art and Culture department. The museum was earlier housed in a rented building but on 14 July 1990 it was moved to a new building, at Mc Donald Hill. The museum galleries have undergone a lot of renovation under the care of Indian Museum, Kolkata. Financial assistance was also received from Victoria Memorial, Kolkata.[2]
Gallery
Some artifacts from the museum
Model of Mizo house
Mizo traditional costumes (left: male; right: female)
Young men studying near their bachelor dormitory
Mizo folk musical instruments
A knife (called dao) specially made for chopping off heads of killed enemies
References
- ↑ "Art & Culture Department, Government of Mizoram". Archived from the original on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ↑ "General information about the Mizoram State Museum, Aizawl" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
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