Brij Vilas Bhavan Museum

Rajasthan


This small, run-down government museum, just north of Kishore Sagar, has a collection of 9th- to 12th-century stone idols and other sculptural fragments (mainly from Baroli and Jhalawar), as well as some miniature paintings.


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