The museum has in its possession over 200,000 works of art, of both Indian and foreign origin, covering more than 5,000 years of Indian cultural heritage. Its rich holdings of various creative traditions and disciplines which represents a unity amidst diversity, an unmatched blend of the past with the present and strong for the future, brings history to life.

Buddhist Stupa containing relics of God, from a stupa built by Emperor Ashoka in 3rd century BCE.