It is an ethnographic museum with multipurpose collections on display.

The museum was established in April 1977[1] by the Tribal Research Institute under Education Department.

The museum was earlier housed in a rented building but on 14 July 1990 it was moved to a new building, at Mc Donald Hill.

Financial assistance was also received from Victoria Memorial, Kolkata.

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