Karnataka Folk Museum Bangalore

Karnataka Folk Museum, Bangalore is one of the celebrated museums of the city. This popular museum is located on the Kumara Park West, Sheshadripuram. Karnataka Folk Museum is controlled by the Karnataka Janapada Trust. In this museum the visitors will find numerous collections of masks, artifacts, and costumes. Collection of folk music and videos of folk dances are also displayed in this museum. The museum is located on 15 acres of land.

The Karnataka folk museum, Bangalore, which is also known as the Janapada Loka is, situated about 53 kms from the city of Bangalore on the famous Bangalore-Mysore highway. This museum is hardly 3 kms away from Ramanagaram.the museum tries to beautifully cover different aspects of Karnataka's diverse folk life. In this museum you will find folk music and videotapes of folk dances of Karnataka. Beautiful artifacts and costumes are also featured in this small museum, which has varieties of trees in its surroundings. The artifacts are kept in three buildings namely Lokamahal, Lokamatha Mandira and Chitrakuteera. In Lokamahal the visitors can find interesting folk puppets, utensils, instruments, weapons and masks. In Lokamatha Mandira a wide variety of, baskets, utensils and earthen jars, which were used to store, grain and pickles are also featured. In the Chitrakuteera a number of photographs covering different aspects of folk life is displayed out here.
The other attraction of the Karnataka Folk museum, Bangalore is a huge elegantly carved temple chariot. You can find many historic ancient carvings in this museum, which were made of various types of stone. The museum also has an amazing amphitheatre. There is a recording studio. Moreover a college on folk life of Karnataka is also situated here.
There is a lake at the rear end of the museum where you can find pedal boat. Children love to visit this area. You can find greeneries all around the museum.

Opening hours:
The Karnataka Folk Museum, Bangalore remains open from 9am to 5:30 pm from Wednesday to Monday.

Visit the Karnataka Folk Museum, Bangalore to know about the folk lives of Karnataka.