Mizoram State Museum
![](../I/m/Mizoram_State_Museum_-_0.jpg)
Mizoram State Museum
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 Archeology Terrace. The collection occupies four floors.
The museum was established in April 1977[1] by the Tribal Research Institute under Education Department. In 1989 it came under Art and Culture department, up till now. 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
![]() Model of Mizo house |
![]() Mizo traditional costumes (left: male; right: female) |
![]() Young men are 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". Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ↑ "General information about the Mizoram State Museum, Aizawl" (PDF). Retrieved 5 August 2016.
External links
![]() |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mizoram State Museum. |
This article is issued from
Wikipedia.
The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.