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| established = 1991<br />
| location = Sanskriti Centre, Hazaribagh<br />
| type = Archaeology, Anthropology, and Tribal Art<br />
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| director = Bulu Imam<br />
| website = [http://www.sanskritihazaribagh.com Official website]<br />
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'''Sanskriti Museum & Art Gallery''', [[Hazaribagh]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.seejharkhand.com/tourism/hazaribagh/sanskriti-museum-and-art-gallery.html|title=Sanskriti Museum And Art Gallery In Hazaribagh, India - Explore Location, History, Reviews, Photos And All About Sanskriti Museum And Art Gallery Hazaribagh|website=www.seejharkhand.com|access-date=2016-06-23}}</ref> was founded by [[Bulu Imam]] in 1991, after he discovered the first [[Rock art|rockart]] of [[Hazaribagh district]] at Isco, subsequently bringing to light over dozen meso-chalcolithic rockarts, including the prehistoric archaeology of the North Karanpura Valley in Jharkhand.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sinclairenvironmental.com/sanskriti/aboutus.htm|title=About us- Sanskriti Centre|website=sinclairenvironmental.com|access-date=2016-06-23}}</ref><br />
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The [http://sanskritimuseum.blogspot.co.uk/ Sanskriti museum] displays a comprehensive collection of [[Palaeolithic]] to [[neolithic]] stone tools, [[microlith]]s, and [[Bronze Age|bronze]] to [[Iron Age]] artifacts, including [[Potsherds|potteries]] and [[Buddhist]] antiquities from around the Hazaribagh region.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sanskritimuseum.blogspot.co.uk/|title=Sanskriti Museum & Art Gallery|website=sanskritimuseum.blogspot.co.uk|access-date=2016-06-23}}</ref> It also has an ethnological gallery dedicated to the [[Birhor people|Birhors]], [[Santal people|Santhals]], and [[Kurukh people|Oraons]] along with monographs complied on their Life, Folklore, Songs, Ethnobotany,{{citation needed|date=June 2016}} available in the museum research archives, and library. It also has a gallery&nbsp;of local crafts and textile, and an art gallery over about 200 Khovar (marriage art) and [[Sohrai]] (harvest art) paintings of Hazaribagh exhibited and displayed.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-05-18|title=The Painted Forest Villages of Hazaribagh – Asian Art Newspaper|url=http://www.asianartnewspaper.com/?p=741|url-status=live|access-date=2016-06-23|website=www.asianartnewspaper.com}}</ref><br />
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The museum is presently housed in his private<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.4mark.net/story/75593/sanskriti-museum-and-art-gallery-hazaribagh-india|title=Sanskriti Museum and Art Gallery, Hazaribagh, India {{!}} Museum/Art Gallery|website=4mark.net|access-date=2016-06-23}}</ref> building which used to be the Tea Garden District labour Association building in the early 20th century (1919), in a 3 acres campus with a grove of trees.<br />
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The Sanskriti museum has a small library and a research archive, along with photographic and visual documentations to back up the exhibits in the museum. The library has several published papers, books, magazines and newsletters related to the Museum and Art Gallery in its Resource Archives and Library.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sanskritimuseum.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/sanskriti-museum-art-gallery.html|title=Sanskriti Museum & Art Gallery: Sanskriti Museum & Art Gallery|website=sanskritimuseum.blogspot.co.uk|access-date=2016-06-27}}</ref><br />
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[[File:Sanskritihzbmuseum1.jpg|thumb|Sanskriti Museum Building]]<br />
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==Museum Collections==<br />
The museum has three major galleries- Archaeological Gallery, Ethnological Gallery, and Tribal Art & Crafts Gallery.<br />
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[[File:Cabinet1.jpg|thumb|Prehistoric Stonetools Cabinet-1]]<br />
[[File:Cabinet2.jpg|thumb|Chalcolithic Pottery and Iron Age Cabinet-2]]<br />
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==Archaeological Gallery==<br />
<gallery widths="px" heights="px"><br />
Lower Palaeolithic.jpg|Lower Palaeolithic stonetools<br />
Middle Palaeolithic.jpg|Middle Palaeolithic stonetools<br />
Upper Palaeolithic.jpg|Upper Palaeolithic stonetools<br />
Mesolithic and Microliths.jpg|Mesolithic tools and Microliths<br />
Neolithic celts.jpg|Neolithic celts<br />
Mothergoddess.jpg|Mother Goddess Statue <br />
Chalcolithic.jpg|Chalcolithic pottery from Hazaribagh<br />
Ironage.jpg|Iron-age furnace pipe & iron-slag castings from Isco<br />
Buddhist hzb.jpg|Buddhist sculpture from Canary hill<br />
Bonga hzb.jpg|Chandi-Bonga deity on stone from Dipugarha<br />
Pala hzb.jpg|Pala inscription from Dato, Hazaribagh<br />
Birdwoman hzb.jpg|Terracotta Bird-woman Dipugarha<br />
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==Ethnological Gallery==<br />
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<gallery widths="px" heights="px"><br />
Birhor.jpg|Birhor Nets and traps from Hazaribagh<br />
Malhar.jpg|Malhar metal castings from Hazaribagh<br />
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==Tribal Art & Crafts Gallery==<br />
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Tribal Art Gallery.jpg|Khovar and Sohrai Paintings<br />
Ledra.jpg|Embroidered Quilts or Ledras<br />
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