Goa State Museum

Goa State Museum in the Patto area of Panjim is the most comprehensive museum in the state, occupying the former Secretariat building near the Adil Shah Palace. Eight galleries display a wide range of material: pre-historic artefacts, Hindu sculpture, coins and bronzes, Christian art including carved ivory and wooden altars removed from suppressed churches, manuscripts, natural history specimens and a notable collection of portraits of the Governors of Portuguese Goa. The museum provides the historical context for understanding Goa's layered cultural identity.