Ramgauri Sangralaya

Ram Gauri Sangrahalaya
Location of Rhenock in India
Location Rhenock - Sikkim, India
Coordinates 27°10′36″N 88°38′36″E / 27.176622°N 88.6432°E / 27.176622; 88.6432
Type Museum
Owner Ganesh Kumar Pradhan

Ram Gauri Sangralaya is a museum in Rhenock Bazar near Thakurbari Mandir (temple), in the administrative district of East Sikkim in the Indian state of Sikkim. Sangralaya is home of the Sikkim Herald, the first government newspaper of Sikkim, which also collects stamps, coins, and newspapers. The Museum documents the political history of Sikkim.[1]

Collection

The Museum has a large volume of documents related to the political development of the former Himalayan Kingdom of Sikkim. It has a collection of various tax receipts paid by the Sikkimese peasantry to their feudal lords in the pre-merger period, banks receipt issued by Bhojraj and Jethmul Bank (the first bank of Sikkim), the entire volume of Kanchenjunga (the first news-based journal of Sikkim) various antiques like telegram machines, gramophones, antique locks and keys, utensils, radios, and clocks.

References


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 7/17/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.