State Museum: Assam
Rajyik State Museum is Located at the Dighalipukhuri tank in Guwahati. The Museum was established under Assam Research Society, it was developed under the presidency of Kanklal Baruah. Later it was maintained through the State Government. The museum offers insights on Assam’s collection of antiques dating back to the prehistoric times.
The museum features anthropology, crafts, hIstory, sculptures, epigraphy, & folk art. The museum also has a Arms section. Manuscript section displays manuscripts like Tai, Assamese, & Myanmarese. Arms and Ammunition section shows swords & armors from the Medieval period to the Mughal period. Museum houses collections of ammunition from second World War II, arms of the Ahom dynasty, sculptors from the Indus Valley civilization and prehistoric terracotta objects. Relics of Vishnu & Goddess Durga are displayed in sculpture section. A Bodh sculpture is also displayed with a collection of historical coins of Ahom and Mughals.
Epigraphy section comprises collections of inscriptions made out of stone & copper that is 5th -18th CE. article, whereas collection of natiral biodiversity, of the state is on a display in the Natural History gallery, especially the one-horn rhino. State museum shows handmade objects, various handicrafts and many reconstructed tribal huts. Musical and weaving instruments are there on display. It also has stenographic collections, periodicals, journals and books of encyclopedia, culture, mythology, arts, biography & Asiatic Society journals.