Government Museum, Bengaluru

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Government Museum, Bengaluru - Location details

Government Museum, Bengaluru, Museum, Bengaluru, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka

Government Museum, Bengaluru - Food details

Bisi Bele Bath, Masala Dosa, Benne Idli

Government Museum, Bengaluru - History details

Founded 18 Aug 1865 under Chief Commissioner L.B. Bowring with advice from Surgeon Edward Balfour, this is among India’s oldest museums. Its 1877 neo‑classical building by Col. R.H. Sankey houses geology, coins, sculpture and the famed Halmidi inscription (c. 450 AD)—the earliest known Kannada epigraph—offering a panorama of Karnataka’s past.