Central Museum Indore

Indore Museum of Archaeology is one of the prominent tourist attractions in Indore. The Central Museum in Indore was founded in October 1929 and was mainly archaeological. Other sections have since been added from time to time and the museum contains more than 7,000 exhibits. Attached to the museum is an institution known as Nara Ratna Mandir or Hall of Great Men founded in 1923 but amalgamated with the museum as a separate entity in 1931. It contains pictures of great men of all countries, castes, creeds with notes on their lives and achievements. A biographical library is attached to the Nara Ratna Mandir which contains several thousand books. The Central Museum in Indore contains mainly archaeological collections representing the different branches like iconography, numismatics, epigraphy, history, ancient pottery, arms and accoutrements. There are inscriptions on stone and brick, copper-plates and seals, Brahmanical and Jain images of stone and metal, architectural carvings. There are paintings of the various Indian schools, a rare collection of manuscripts and of ancient ornaments. The museum has also sections to represent geological and ethnological collections and commercial products.