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District Museum, Bomdila

District Museum, Bomdila

District Museum, Bomdila

PO Bomdila
Bomdila, West Kameng Distt, Arunachal Pradesh
India 790 001
The District Museum, Bomdila started functioning in July 1965 with a view to preservation and promotion of arts and crafts of the people of West Kameng district in particular and Arunachal Pradesh in general. It is purely ethnographic in nature.
Set up to promote the arts and crafts of West Kameng district, their collection is primarily of ethnographic objects of different tribes of Arunachal Pradesh including masks, monastic arts forms like scroll paintings, musical instruments. The museum functions under the Directorate of Research of the Government of Arunachal Pradesh.
About the collection: The museum houses 767 ethnographic objects from different tribes inhabiting different parts of Arunachal Pradesh covering as diverse a range as masks, scroll paintings, textiles, ornaments, terracotta, wood carvings, pottery, basketry, agricultural implements, musical instruments, religious paraphernalia and other domestic products – mostly acquired through field collections.