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Shri Chitrapur Nath Museum, Shirali, Karnataka
This museum is a storehouse of inscriptions, copper plate grants, coins, handicrafts, paintings and many more.

Built in the year 1973, Shri Chitrapur Nath Museum and Art Gallery at Shirali (Uttar Kannada) was built in the purpose to store different objects of the ancient past of Shirali and the other parts of Karnataka.

Today it is a show case of bronze and stone sculptures, inscriptions, copper plate grants, coins, handicrafts, paintings and drawings, oil lamp stands and various other metallic objects used in ritualistic worship, old manuscripts etc. It also includes manuscripts of the foreign countries, natural history objects and shell conches.

The museum greets its visitors to visit the museum everyday. There is no closing day of the museum.

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(Last Updated on : 31/08/2009)
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