Govt Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh

The Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh, owes its existence to the partition of the country in August,1947. It is one of the premier institution of India with a very rich collection of Gandharan sculptures, Pahari and Rajasthani miniature paintings. Before the partition in 1947, the collection of art objects, paintings, sculptures and decorative arts, were housed in the Central Museum, Lahore the then capital of Punjab.
Jan Marg, Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, 160011
0172 274 2010
museum@chd.nic.in