Museum Activities

 Museums
    
  1. State Museum, Kurukshetra 
     Now the state govt. has decided to set up a State Archaeological Museum at Kurukshetra. 
     The matter regarding transfer of land from tourism department is under process.
    
  2. Site Museum, Pinjore 
     The remains of ancient temple plinth of Panchayat Plan, Stone/ sculptures and architectural 
     members of C. 8th  to 12th Century  A. D. have  been  unearthed as the result of scientific 
     clearness work at  Bhima Devi Temple, Pinjore. A site  museum  is being set up to display 
     the exposed artifacts.The Museum building is complete.It has been got constructed through 
     Haryana Tourism Corporation with a cost of Rs.20.00 Lakh approximately.Interior decoration 
     and display of the artifacts and also land scaping and beautification of adjoining 
     area will be completed in next phase.
    
  3. Zonal Museum, Hisar 
     With a view to educate and aquaint the general Public with their heritage of the region, a 
     small museum has been set up at Hisar in the Jahaj Kothi, a monument of British Period.


 Exhibition 
      The department organizes exhibitions from time to time to acquaint the general public and 
      research scholars with their glorious part and new discoveries in the field of archaelogy 
      and history. Apart from exhibitions organized  with  the DPR Haryana on various occasions, 
      the following important exhibitions were also organized by the department:-

  (i)	The exhibition entitled Haryana through the ages was organized at the time of world 
	Heritage Day at the Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh.

  (ii)	An exhibition on the monumental wealth of Haryana was organized at War Memorial 
	Complex, Kala Amb, Panipat at the time of its inauguration.

  (iii)	Rare antiquities, discovered from the excavation at Banawali were sent through 
	Archaelogical Survey of India to display in the Festival of India at London and Moscow.

  (iv)	Unique discoveries of Kunal excavations were displayed at National Museum, 
	New Delhi at the time of World Archaelogical Congress on their demand.

  (v)	Special exhibitions on new discoveries were organized at the time of Geeta Jayanti 
	at Kurukshetra.

  (vi)	Rare and important antiquities of Kunal, Banawali and Agreha were sent to the 
 	Archaelogical Survey of India to exhibit at the time of SAARC (South Asian 
	Association for Regional Co-operatoin) Archaelogical Conference at New Delhi.