Mizoram State Museum
23°44′17″N 92°42′56″E / 23.7381°N 92.7156°E / 23.7381; 92.7156
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.
History
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
- 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
External links
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- Art & Culture Department, Government of Mizoram
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