After 1945 special efforts were made to preserve and develop this museum.
Adopting the tradition of its ancestors, Rani Jyoti Devi of Rajnandgaon and her
son Raja Digvijay Das paid Rs 1 lakh to build a new museum building. As a
result, after the creation of the present museum building (Ajayb Bangla) in
front of the Collectorate, on 21 March 1953, the first President of the Republic
of India, Dr. The museum building was inaugurated by Dr. Rajendra Prasad. Mahant
Ghasidas Memorial Museum, Raipur is famous not only for Chhattisgarh but also
for its antiquity and antiquity throughout the country. In this multi-faceted
museum, there are various types of materials related to tribal culture, spiced
animal-birds and craft works of modern period, besides prehistoric stone tools,
ancient statues, records, copper plates and coins received from Chhattisgarh and
other areas.
The museum is small but good . It has 3 floors ground floor, first floor and the
second floor . The museum was opened by Dr Rajendra Prasad the first President of
India in 1953 . I visited the museum on December 11th 2022 . In the floor there is a
map of Chhattisgarh that tells you about the location of famous temple there are
pictures of temples .In the second floor there were weapons of tribals and statues
of animals with
A geo-climatic craftsmanship has been developed for the workshop, training and
display
in the premises. After the formation of the state, the museum complex is highly
developed by the form of a culture building. Entry gallery, Sirpur gallery and
inscription gallery is installed in the base of the museum. In the first floor there
is
a nature gallery, arms gallery, painting gallery and tribal culture gallery in the
second floor.
The museum houses various statues of stone statues, metal statues, copper sheets,
records, coins and modern periods. Among the rare antiquities, the recorded wooden
pillar of second century BC, from Kirari and Manjushree of Sirpur and other bronze
statues are notable. Among other residues, the important names of Nalvanshi and
Sharbhupri rulers have been marked by coins, coins of various damaged mudras and
copper
carts of the Kalchuriyen kings and records, Sirpur and Sisdeori.