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The Archaeological Museum and Portrait Gallery

The Archaeological Museum and Portrait Gallery

The Archaeological Museum and Portrait Gallery

St. Francis of Assisi Church (Convent Section)
Old Goa, North Goa, India 403402

M: 0832-2285333, 0832-2285302, 9421247026

E: [email protected]

W: http://asi.nic.in/asi_museums_oldgoa.asp

The State Archaeological Museum is one of the prime tourist attractions in Goa. Established in 1964, the Museum is a well-known centre for viewing some of the most unique artefacts from the olden times. Renovated and restructured in 1981–82, the museum exists in the convent section of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi. The museum was eventually set up under the guidance and support of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). There are eight galleries which display portraits and sculptures dating pre-historic period to the late medieval period and a surfeit of artefacts belonging to the Portuguese colonization.

About the collection: The museum has a collection of approximately 729 antiquities dated to prehistoric period. The museum’s collection also has bits and pieces from Goa’s early Hindu history. Various excavated materials like the Shikaras from Chandor are displayed. There are also Persian and Arabic inscriptions, late medieval period coins and currency, revenue and court fee stamps, wooden and bronze sculptors and rifles, swords, daggers of the Portuguese period.