Ramnagar Museum Travel Map

Ramnagar Museum, also known as Banaras Vidya Mandir Museum, is a scholarly museum located inside the Ramnagar Fort. The museum houses a vast collection of items belonging to the Royal family of Varanasi. These include artefacts belonging to medieval period along with various handicraft items.The museum also showcases elephant saddles, arms and armours used in the royal period, beautiful palanquins, decorated art pieces, textiles of various kinds and ancient manuscripts. Gold-plated howdahs, furniture, jewel-encrusted sedan chairs and other artefacts are some of the assemblages displayed in the museum.The Ramnagar Fort Museum also displays the Royal collection, which includes royal palkies, vintage cars and ivory work, armoury of swords and old guns and antique clocks. Tourists can visit this place by hiring cycle rickshaws, auto-rickshaws and taxis, which are available in plenty in the destination.