Under instruction of Sir Richard Temple, then the Chief commissioner of the Central Province, a committee was constituted for establishment of museum and library at Nagpur.

Spearheaded by Sir Richard Temple, the royal families in the central India, native chiefs, landlord and all the district holders took a great interest in collection of the rare objects for the newly formed museum.

This gallery has a rare collection of dinosaurs’ fossils, mineral stones, antlers, reptiles, fish and invertebrates specimen.

The fossil belongs to Jainosaurus (a large Titanosaurian dinosaur of India and wider Asia) which was excavated in the Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh back in 1932-33.

[4] This gallery showcases glimpse of flora and fauna of Central India through its huge collection of stuffed animals and birds.

Here, tourists can see antiquities from the chalcolithic sites of Sarasvati–Indus and Kaundinyapura excavations, megalithic sarcophagus, stone and copper plate inscriptions, coins of different ages, and metals, etc.