Museum of Folk and Tribal Art

Location

Museum of Folk and Tribal Art was founded by K.C. Aryan, who was a famous sculptor, painter, historian as well as scholar. The museum holds exhibit of numerous handicrafts made from wood, stone, and iron. Religious artefacts, terracotta art objects, embroidered works and murals from Himachal Pradesh are also showcased in the museum.

Items of folk and tribal arts like Kantha embroidery from Bengal and lithographs from Amritsar are also on display. Visitors can see shawls from the Swat Valley and hangings from Gujarat exhibited at the museum. One of the major attractions of this museum is 200 Shiva Heads from Karnataka. Additionally, numerous life size 'mukhalingam' are also displayed in the collection.