Tiruvarur

Tiruvarur

Government of Tamil Nadu Museum Department opened its fourteenth multipurpose museum at Tiruvarur in the year 1998. The Museum is located in an ancient Mandapa of Thyagaraja Swami Temple, which is 300 years old. Sculptures from 10th to 17th Century AD, bronzes of 12th & 14th Century AD, wood carvings (150 years old), decorative items of 14th Century AD, Foreign coins, currencies, coins of Chera, Chola, Pandya, Vijayangara, etc., anthropological objects such as stone age tools, potteries, burial urns, tribal implements & ornaments, metal-ware objects , handicraft items, musical instruments, arms (such as Muzzle loading guns), art objects such as watercolor paintings, oil paintings and many natural history specimens are some of the important exhibits of the museum. A recently unearthed Buddha sculpture from Kudavasal Taluk, Tiruvarur District, belonging to the 10th- 11th century AD, is a noteworthy one. The educational activities of this museum include monthly lectures, art competitions, handicraft-training programs to school / college students, etc.

Contact Details :

Museum Address :
The Curator,
Government Museum,
A/m. Thiyagaraya Swami Thirukoil Campus,
Tiruvarur - 610 002.

FEW IMPORTANT EXHIBITS :

  • Subramanya, Valli, Deivanai
    Subramanya, Valli, Deivanai

    It belongs to Chola period. Lord Subramaniam is in thuvibanga and Devi in threebhanga position in the Padma Peetha. Subramaniam shows one of the four arms broken in the west, the other hand sakthippadai, and the lower two hands holding the position is bow and arrow respectively. But both ornaments are missing. The goddess also appears on the kadaga mutra with both hands. It is customary to show a chest strap to the Devasena in this sculpture. But not shown in these sculptures.

  • Churning Stick Of Curd
    Churning Stick Of Curd

    This is a churning stick of Curd. Doda’s were still used this items in Nilgiris district. Its made of bamboo stick, it was called in locally prampu. It is one of the household artefacts of the doda’s still in practice today. Each porition of the bamboo stick were made of bamboo rope. This instrument is necessary of the doda community.

  • Maharaveenai
    Maharaveenai

     Its called either Maharaveenai or Maharayazh. It has nineteen strings of among the four types of the Yaz verity. This type of the Yaz is face upon the crocodile type. The first literary evidence is taken from the Seevagasindamani in 2nd c A.D. This instrument very famous during the period of Chola times. Even today these type of the Yaz using in Chola region.