The museums

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The museums

The museums of Rajasthan, India All of the towns in Rajasthan have a museum where you can admire the traditional culture of this region of India. Martin Siepmann/ age fotostock

In the new city of Jaipur, the Albert Hall Museum is home to a museum of Rajput traditional clothing and portraits of Maharajas. In Bikaner, the Sadul Singh museum found in the Old City is devoted to the town's rulers with 35,000 pictures and exhibitions of the things they used each day. In Jodhpur, the Mehrangarh Museum, in the heart of the fortress, houses sumptuous palanquins and cradles to move about on backs of elephants, miniature collections of the lifestyles of rulers of various Rajput schools of thought. Get into the Maharaja's bedroom with its sandal wooden marquetry ceiling and wall paintings. In Udaipur, out of the walls of the fortress, you find the Popular Arts museum and a puppets performance taking place every hour and, sometimes, dances in the evenings. In the Crystal Gallery, contemplate great and stylish crystal objects and furniture.