Mahant Ghasi Memorial Museum

Mahant Ghasidas Memorial Museum is one of the first ten museums of the country that started with the donation of Mahant Ghasidas of Rajnandgaon in the year 1875. This museum was initially run by the Municipality and the District Council. After 1945 special efforts were made to preserve and develop it further. Rani Jyoti Devi and her son Raja Digvijay Das of Rajnandgaon paid Rs 1 lakh to build a new building for the museum. This museum is very much popular for its antiquity throughout the country. One can see the various types of materials related to tribal culture, craftworks of modern periods apart from prehistoric stone tools, records, ancient statues, coins, and copper plates. After the state was formed, the complex was developed by the form of a culture building. In the base of the museum, there is an Entry gallery, Sirpur gallery, and inscription gallery. On the first floor there is a nature gallery, arms gallery, and painting gallery followed by a tribal culture gallery on the second floor.