Overlooking the Institute
of Advanced Studies and housed in a beautiful on high ground, the Shimla
State Museum was opened in 1974 and has growing collection of 2,000 object
d'art. It contains a rich collection of paintings left with the family
of Wazir Kartar Singh of Nurpur, Kangra. Of the 144 paintings, two-thirds
will be kept with the National Museum, New Delhi and the remainder in the
State Museum. |