SPS Museum

Established in the year 1898, Sri Pratap Singh Museum at Lal Mandi, Srinagar on the left bank of river Jhelum remained one of the much-visited places by the locals as well as visitors. The importance of a museum depends on its historicity. Since the inception of Dogra rule in the State in 1846 by Maharaja Gulab Singh, this museum remained an important source of entertainment and knowledge for antiquarians, historians, and lovers of art. The fact is that it has always remained a very important and valuable source where artifacts of rarity and value remained deposited. It contains some of the rarest of rare sculptures, numismatics, terracotta and pottery, miniature paintings and photographs, armor and accouterment, utensils, upholstery, specimens of woodwork, paper machine, and shawl weaving, etc. The museum enshrines the ancient and modern history of Jammu and Kashmir.It was the right decision on the part of the Government to raise a new modern building to house the museum in line with modern techniques and exhibition. Consequently, a hefty amount was sanctioned for the new museum complex which was to come up adjacent to the existing museum building in the Lal Mandi area.