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Archival Gallery & Bal Manohar Jalan Museum

Planet Patna Foundation brings together a research-driven Archival Gallery and the Bal Manohar Jalan Museum—two complementary spaces that preserve documents, images, and artworks tracing Patna's layered cultural history.

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Archival Gallery

Archival Gallery

The Archival Gallery showcases twentieth-century documents, photographs, invitations, institutional records, and ephemera that trace the social, cultural, and civic evolution of Patna. Designed as an immersive research space, it invites visitors to encounter the city's history through original papers and curated narratives.

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Bal Manohar Jalan Museum

Bal Manohar Jalan Museum

The Bal Manohar Jalan Museum presents Patna Qalam (Company School) paintings, regional schools from Murshidabad to Tanjore, and select antiquities from the Jalan family collection. It is conceived as a contemporary museum where visitors experience art, objects, and archival stories within a unified curatorial narrative.

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