This privately run venture recreates a Goan village in miniature that seeks to depict what the local rural life was in the past, over a century ago.

The Ancestral Goa museum -- with statues of a Portuguese soldier brandishing a spear, a statue of Lord Parashuram, a fisherman, and other villagers, women selling fish, farmers working in paddy fields and other occupations of the past -- has been described in The Indian Express as nearby "the Casa Alvares mansion that belonged to the Portuguese lawyer Araujo Alvares.

It has on its campus an art gallery, a handicraft centre offering Goan crafts on sale, a restaurant, cross, spring, rubber plantations, and a spice yard.

[4] It has been listed in The Goa You Don’t Know: 10 Offbeat Travel Secrets That Go Beyond Beaches.

[7] In June 2020, this museum, together with others in Goa, was reported as having its operations being hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.