Amar Mahal Palace

To promote the stated objectives, the Trust arranges guided tours, book readings, lectures, film shows and hobby classes and other visitor friendly activities in the Museum.

[5][6] The Dogra-Pahari paintings displayed in the museum were creation of the second half of the 18th century in Jammu and Himachal Pradesh of the Kangra school of art.

To quote the words of Karan Singh: "The whole effect is to transport one into a fascinating miniature world with its own aura and ethos.

The windows also depict triangular projections in classical Greek architectural style, which are fitted over ornate false columns.

[9] Only four rooms of the palace are open depicting Pahari paintings of Mahabharata epic scenes and royal memorabilia.

Modern version of the Dashavatara paintings (ten avatars of Hindu god Vishnu) are also displayed in a separate ante-chamber in the Museum.

In the first and second floors, a few chambers house the library, which has a collection of rare antique books (25,000) on religion, philosophy and political science to fiction.

[10] An exclusive chamber in the museum, once the living quarters of the Maharani (later called the Maharajmata) Tara Devi, is conserved and exhibited in its original form where a silver bedspread, period furniture, photographs, the decoration of the Crown of India which was presented to her in 1945, her personal items of clothing and the unique Victorian bath room are on display.

A statue of Gulab Singh of Jammu and Kashmir at Amar Mahal Palace