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State Museum: Assam

BySamiran Nandi

State Museum is at Dighalipukhuri of Guwahati. This museum was established under Assam Research Society, developed under the presidency of Kanklal Baruah. This museum has insights on Assam’s collection of rare antiques, few articles of prehistoric times features epigraphy, anthropology, sculpture, crafts, hIstory with folk art.

Arms & ammunition section shows swords & armors of the Medieval to Mughal period. Manuscripts in languages like Tai, Assamese, & Myanmarese are displayed. Museum houses collections such as ammunitions from Second World War, arms from Ahom dynasty, sculptors from Indus Valley civilization and prehistoric terracotta objects.

Relics of Hindu worship are on display, idols of Vishnu, Durga, a Bodh sculpture are displayed in sculpture section. A Bodh sculpture, collection of historical coins of Ahoms and Mughals shows the richness in history.

Epigraphy section comprises collections of inscriptions made out of stone & copper that is 5th -18th CE. article, whereas biodiversity is on a display at Natural History Gallery, especially a one-horn rhino. State museum has objects which are handmade, crafts, few reconstructed tribal huts. Musical & weaving instruments is on display. It has stenographic collections, periodicals, journals, encyclopedia, culture, mythology, arts, biography & publications of Asiatic Society.

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