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'''Srimanthi Bhai Memorial Government Museum''' [[Mangalore]], [[Karnataka]], Collection of archaeological and geological artefacts, a unit of [http://kannadasiri.kar.nic.in/archaeology/eng/museums.htm Directorate of Archaeology & Museums Karnataka] was founded in 4 May 1960 by Sri B.D Jatti, the chief minister of Karnataka Government. The museum is located in Mangalore, the coastal land of Karnataka.

==History==
The major portions of the collections were made by Col. V.R Mirajkar. He was a medical officer at [[Lahore]] during the Second World War, in the British Indian Army,<ref>{{cite news | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangaluru/Authorities-do-no-good-to-this-museum-road/articleshow/16830660.cms | date=16 October 2012 | title=Authorities do no good to this museum road | first=Vinobha | last=K T | newspaper=Times of India | accessdate=10 January 2020 }}</ref> The museum was his living house designed and constructed in a nearly same blueprint of the building structures of [[Milan]], Italy in the year 1935, and it looks like ship. Later the house was donated to the government of Karnataka in 1955<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.deccanherald.com/content/532511/bejai-museum-awaits-facelift.html | date=4 March 2016 | title=Bejai museum awaits a facelift | newspaper=Deccan Herald | first=Ashwani | last=Kumar | accessdate=10 January 2020 }}</ref> with all the collection of antiques and contemporary masterpieces during his trips within and outside India. Thereafter, it was transformed into the museum and named in honour and memory of his mother Srimanthi Bhai.

It has a collection of antiquities and historical collections representing the culture and lifestyle of olden days civilisation and arts and crafts.

==Exhibition galleries==
*The Museum exhibitions consist of [[Tulunadu]]'s unique [[Buta Kola|Bootharathane]] idol, Muga(Mask), utensils.
*Paleolithic & Neolithic stone tools, coins, metal utensils, wooden furniture, musical instruments, ethnological materials, arms & armours, replicas of the Harappa & Mahenjodaro, Gandhara & Takshahshila School of art, Warangal, Nagarajunakonda, Saranath, Konark, Kushana, Ahimchatra, Tulunadu, and local regions.
*Animals seals, wooden panels, gigantic wooden figurines, porcelain materials, musical instruments, lamps, clock, wooden god figurines and other antiques for historical seeking aspects of local people.
===Painting===
The exhibition covers traditional attire, contemporary scenes, portraits, nature of both oil and water painting by various identified and unidentified artists.

The first floor of the building is dedicated to collections made by col. V. R. Mirajkar. He had collected a huge variety of handicrafts from India and also from China, Nepal, Czechoslovakia, Africa, Denmark, Persia, Germany, Japan, Turkey, Brittan, Italy, Tibet, Russia, Venice, Paris, & London. Many of his contemporary collections are unique and have become antique pieces now. Wooden furniture, glass panels, silver & ivory objects, shells, cigar boxes, a variety of lighters, wooden objects, glass materials, metal objects, etc. were personally used by him.

=== Gandhiji photo gallery===
Gandhiji photo gallery exhibits his collections of Gandhiji's rare photographs,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://swapnawrites.com/mangalore-museum-gandhi-letters/|title=Mangalore museum, Gandhi letters | Swapna Kishore|date=24 April 2013|website=swapnawrites.com}}</ref> It reflects the life cycle of Gandhiji from birth until the end of the journey. Life in Africa, rally, non-co-operation movement, Dandi March, Satyagraha, Photos depicting Gandhi with Nehru, Jinnah, Kasturba, Rabindranath Tagore, Subhash Chandra Bose, Sardar Patel, Lord Mount Batten & other historic figures of our nation. Collections of Gandhiji's letters written to Andrews, Wardha, and others.
=== Kids section===
Kids section contains a collection of performing puppets, dolls of [[Yakshagana]] and [[Buta Kola]], bird & animals figurines, planes, boat models, photographs, wooden models, ethnical & bhootha aaradane Uru of Tulunadu

===Stones===
Outer premises cover hero stone, Maha Sati Kallu of Tulunadu, [[Tulu language|Tulu]], [[Kannada]] inscriptions, statues of soldiers, Jaina, serpent-nagastones and Cannons collected from Jamlabad Fort, Belthangady which are belongings made between 14th to 16th century AD.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Museums in Karnataka]]
[[Category:Museums in Mangalore]]
[[Category:Culture of Mangalore]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Mangalore]]

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