Museums & Culture
1 place around Bhubaneswar, with the travel time to each.
Odisha State Museum
Established in 1932, the Odisha State Museum offers an immersive journey through the region’s rich artistic and cultural history. It began as a teaching collection assembled by two historians at Ravenshaw College in Cuttack and is now the oldest and largest museum in the state, arranged across eleven sections — archaeology, epigraphy, numismatics, armoury, mining and geology, natural history, art and craft, contemporary art, patta painting, anthropology, and manuscripts. The manuscript holding is the reason scholars come: some forty thousand palm-leaf volumes, written and illuminated with a stylus, and reckoned the largest collection of its kind anywhere. Allow two hours. It closes on Mondays and on the second and fourth Saturday of the month.