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Himachal State Museum, Shimla
Also known as Shimla State Museum
The Himachal State Museum at Chaura Maidan on the Mount Pleasant estate, inaugurated 1974 in a late-19th-century British colonial bungalow. The collection runs from Mehrgarh pottery through Pahari miniature painting (Guler, Kangra, Chamba, Basohli), 8th-century Mandi stone sculpture, Tibetan thangkas, Himachal doll crafts, and Gandhi-era photographs. The Pahari painting rooms are the finest publicly accessible collection outside the state museums of Chandigarh and Delhi.
- Periods
- British Colonial Age, Republic and Living Practice
- Function
- Archaeology & heritage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 31.104, 77.149
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- Site withinShimla
The Himachal State Museum at Chaura Maidan, inaugurated 1974 in a late-19th-century British bungalow on the Mount Pleasant estate. The collection runs from Mehrgarh pottery through Pahari miniature painting (Guler, Kangra, Chamba, Basohli), 8th-century Mandi stone sculpture, Tibetan thangkas, Himachal doll crafts and Gandhi-era photographs. The Pahari rooms are the finest publicly accessible collection outside Chandigarh and Delhi.
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