S.R.C. Museum of Indology

Acharya Ram Charan Sharma 'Vyakul' established S.R.C. Museum of Indology in 1960. In the early 1950s, Acharya Vyakul started to build a collection of small artefacts of folk art. His early purchases included paintings of Dhola-Maru and Madhu-Malti. It started as a personal collection in a rented space in Chaura Rasta that later culminated into a museum.

The entire collection of the museum is spread over two floors. It includes hundreds of objects that are divided into 12 major departments. The ground floor has one introduction room to the museum and one gallery space that displays important artefacts such as an entire Bhagvat Gita written on a tiny piece of paper, Gayatri manta written on a strand of hair, a coloured map of India drawn on a grain of rice. The first floor houses ancient astronomical instruments, crockery from England and other European nations. It is divided into two sections, the notable artefacts in the first section displays some of the oldest manuscripts dating as far back as 1143 CE, Quran written by Aurangazeb. The second section is a mixed bag of various exhibits. It includes weapons, coins from 7th-8th century, old and pre-historic tools, paintings from the Mughal and Rajput era, Indian architectural drawings, fossilised eggs, meteorite, floating stone, and flexible stone. 

Rare artefacts in the museum include paintings on the subject of serpentology, more than 15,000 manuscripts, illustrated and non-illustrated, written on paper, birch bark, palm leaf, and cardamom rind, Tantric art, and herbs related to alchemy.