India Guide
Bihar and Jharkhand
Patna Museum
Address: Buddha Marg
Price: Rs250
Opening time: Tues– Sun 10.30am–4.30pm
Although faded and run-down, the Patna Museum has an excellent collection of sculptures. Among its most famous exhibits is a polished sandstone female attendant, or yakshi, holding a fly-whisk, dating back to the third century BC. There are also Jain images from the Kushana period, a group of Buddhist bodhisattvas from Gandhara (in northwest Pakistan), some freakishly deformed stuffed animals and a gigantic fossilized tree thought to be 200 million years old.