City's only museum, which links modern Indian history with the 16th century objects. Col VR Mirajkar Mangalorean by birth during one of his posting in pre-Independence India, had stayed in a bungalow he liked it so much that he built an almost exact replica of it at Bejai. Later the State Archaeological Department converted the bungalow into a museum.
The museum is named after the Colonel's mother with many of the exhibits are from his own collection he has collected over 40 years. The house has three floors and its huge teakwood caskets filled with Artifacts ranging from ancient coins, second century stone idols, 18th century brass images, lamps, life-size wooden figures can also be found. You can also find pottery, porcelain and glass from China and Japan.
Neolithic tools, palm-leaf manuscripts, puppetry artifacts and a large collection of old paintings are also displayed.
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