Government Museum, Kanniyakumari — Attraction in Agastheeswaram

Great historical importance like old coins, bronze sculptures, woodcarvings and tribal objects. This museum located at a distance of 1 km from the Kanyakumari Bus Station & 1.5 kms from the Kanyakumari Railway Station which is situated in the Beach Road, The Government Museum offers a good collection of sculptured artifacts and crafts of South Indian Temples and is one of the Must See places in Kanyakumari. It's have the cultural pictures also. Museum Kanyakumari is closed on Fridays and Second Saturaday. The Kanyakumari Government Museum is a mixture of historic evidences, pictures,paintings,arts crafts documents and ancient housewares and various other cultural representations. You can Also see various  sculptures of various period are presented here. The creative forms received from different parts of Kanyakumari district is displayed here. Paintings of Raja Ravi Varma and art gallery of Travancore Dynasty is also...

Government Museum is located to Bhagavathi Amman Temple and Gandhi Mandapam near the sea cost. It has a wide collections of abnormally grown organisams, medival period Urns, spectacular sculptures of God's and Goddess. It also has an old chariot carved out of wood. The statues are beautifully carved and varies from 1ft to 7ft high. It also has replicas of Raja Ravi Verma paintings, the best being the ones of Ravana's Sita Kidnapping episode, House-wife Kid and the doggie waiting for the Husband to reach home.

It is bit sad to see the bad state of affairs of the Muesum with such precious items, the roof is heavily damaged leaving the sculptures to expose to heavy rain and sun. It is necessary the Government of Tamil Nadu takes all cognizance to save these rare sculptures to pass on to the next generation.

Tickets is Rs.5/- and another...

Significantly overpriced if you look foreign - 2000% more than the price for Indians. It's not even close to being worth the price.

I struggle to understand the reason for such a large uplift given that nothing is provided to give it even the slightest justification. Once again, it's another site that 95% of those with me boycotted as a consequence, so the country is losing money not gaining it from these massive pricing uplifts.

Throughout India I am being told that international tourism is significantly down this year - this continual massive overpricing for foreign tourists is being recognised by potential visitors and is contributing to the stay away and harms the...