This museum was established by the antique
collections and efforts of late Ramchandra Shahi from Shahi-Minapur in Muzaffarpur,
by his son Dr. Vijay Kumar Shahi in the memory of his father. Ramchandra Shahi
was born in year 1912 in the Shahi-Minapur village of Muzaffarpur and he had
special interest in collecting antiques and historical objects and he had
established a museum there in the memory of his father late Brajbhushan Shahi.
The current museum building was constructed by the govt and municipal corporation
in 1987 and inaugurated by Bihar Chief Minister Bindeshwari Dubey on 23rd
of May, 1987.
Entry to this museum is free of cost
and you just have to make an entry in the visitors register. The museum is in a
big hall on the ground floor which is air conditioned. There are 3-4 people
available all the time to watch over the historical artefacts and will go with
you if you are visiting there. And they will instruct you not to take
photographs of any of the items. The pictures of artefacts shown above are
taken from public sources on the internet.
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