Overview of past works

The Directorate of Uttar Pradesh Museum, under the Department of Culture, UP, manages the museums of Uttar Pradesh. The Major museum experiences powered through NETLESS are the State Lucknow museum, Government Museum Mathura and Government Buddha Museum, Gorakhpur.

• The State Museum in Lucknow is the oldest and largest multipurpose museum of Uttar Pradesh, established in 1863. It has on display hundreds of antiquities and other exhibits. Its areas of acquisition include art and archaeology, paintings, manuscripts, numismatics, anthropology.
• Govt. Buddha Museum Gorakhpur was established in 1987 but the present building came into existence in 1997.The museum's main aim is the collection, preservation, documentation, exhibition of the cultural property and to make them available for educational activities to create awareness about the glorious past. It show cases items like age old sculpture, figurines, terracotta items, beads etc. Most of the objects here are rare and priceless. Presently four galleries are on display in the museum. About 2023 pieces of metal and stone sculptures, terracotta, potteries, thankas, miniature paintings etc. have been displayed in the galleries.
• The Government Museum, Mathura originally founded by F.S. Grouse in 1874, is today one of the leading centers for research, study and the preservation of Mathura’s splendid heritage of art. The museum housed in a fine octagonal, red sandstone building, located at Dampier Park, has the largest collection of Kushana sculptures in the country. The Mathura museum has also fine collections of stone sculpture and terracotta, gold, silver and copper coins, clay seals, ancient pottery, paintings and bronzes.