The Jawaharlal Nehru State Museum also referred as Jawaharlal Nehru
Museum is the state museum of Arunachal Pradesh, in Itanagar.
Established in the 1980s, it showcases aspects of tribal life of
Arunachal Pradesh. These include clothing, headdress, weapons,
handicraft, music instruments, jewellery and other artifacts of daily
use and culture, besides archeological finds. Over the years, the museum
has become an important tourist destination in the state capital.
The ground floor of the museum houses an extensive ethnographic
collection, including traditional art, musical instruments, religious
objects, and handicrafts, like wood carving and cane products, while the
first floor has archaeological objects found in Ita Fort, Noksparbat
and Malinithan in West Siang district.
Apart from its collection, the museum runs a workshop for traditional
cane products at its Handicrafts Centre. The museum shop sells tribal
handicrafts. In 2011, Tapi Mra, the first person from the state to scale
Mt. Everest, donated his entire expedition gear to the museum.
