Museum of Folk and Tribal Arts

Home of Folk and Tribal Arts is a unique museum of art objects of the rural and tribal flavour, collected by K C Aryan.  This museum houses objects of artistic value, that are no longer in use or circulation, and are extinct, so to say. To this category belong the pataka paintings, the card puppets, a large set of clay pottery and toys shaped in the tradition of the Indus Valley culture, wooden masks, rare textiles, folk paintings mainly from Punjab, masterpieces of bronze icons, terracotta, wood, and stone images. The museum has a collection of art objects not only from Punjab, Himachal and Haryana, but also from several other regions. Exquisite silver ornaments, silver hookah, mouth pieces, elbow rests, handwritten manuscripts, glass paintings, original examples of Madhubani paintings from Mithila in Bihar, extremely rare embroidered textiles from Bhadrawah Kishtavar in the vicinity of Chamba district in Himachal Pradesh, and Swat, ritual objects from diverse provinces, sculptures, bhang (hemp) filters made of iron from Jodhpur in Rajasthan, richly carved doorways and tiny windows from Rajasthan, applique embroidered pieces from Gujarat and Himachal, figurative embroidered phulkaris of Punjab and Haryana, traditional playing cards known as Gaujita, lacquered ware from Hoshiarpur in Punjab, and Sankheda in Gujarat, traditional shoes made of diverse materials from different provinces, objects made for votive offerings, and architectural brackets are all part of the collection at this museum.