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Government House
Mysore is an architectural vaudeville of fine buildings and monuments. Dating from 1805, Government House, formerly the British Residency, is a Tuscan Doric building set in 20 hectares of gardens.
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Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya
The Bophal-based Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya is dedicated to preserving and promoting traditional Indian arts and culture. The Mysore branch functions primarily as a cultural centre and exhibition space showcasing arts from rural India. Monthly demonstrations and lectures are open to the public, as are workshops, which are usually two-week courses in a traditional art form. The museum has excellent rotating exhibitions and a good souvenir shop.
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Jayachamarajendra Art Gallery
The Jaganmohan Palace, just west of the Maharaja's Palace, houses the Jayachamarajendra Art Gallery, which has a collection of kitsch objects and memorabilia from the Wodeyars, including weird and wonderful musical machines, rare instruments, Japanese art, and paintings by Raja Ravi Varma. Built in 1861, the palace served as a royal auditorium.
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Jayalakshmi Vilas Complex Museum
Inside the Mysore University Campus, 3km west of the city centre, the Jayalakshmi Vilas Complex Museum is housed in a grand mansion and specialises in folklore. Displays include a wooden puppet of the 10-headed demon Ravana, leather shadow puppets, rural costumes, a 300-year-old temple cart and a stuffed tiger bearing a portrait of a past maharaja framed with elephant tusks!
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Karanji Lake Nature Park
Karanji Lake Nature Park is home to a large number of bird species, including great and little cormorants, purple and grey herons, various egrets, black ibises, rose-ringed parakeets, green bee-eaters and painted storks, as well as several kinds of butterfly. The aviary here is sad but fascinating; its enormous great pied hornbill is a sight to see.
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Maharaja's Palace
The fantastic profile of the walled Indo-Saracenic Maharaja's Palace, the seat of the maharajas of Mysore, graces the city's skyline. An earlier palace burnt down in 1897 and the present one, designed by English architect Henry Irwin, was completed in 1912 at a cost of Rs 4.5 million.
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Mysore Zoo
Mysore Zoo, set in pretty gardens on the eastern edge of the city, dates from 1892. A range of primates, tigers, elephants, bears, birds and rhinos live here.
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Rail Museum
To see how Indian royals travelled in days past, pop into the Rail Museum behind the train station, where you can inspect the Mysore maharani's saloon, a wood-panelled beauty dating from 1899. There are also five steam engines, each with its own story.
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Sri Chamundeswari Temple
Overlooking Mysore from the 1062m-high summit of Chamundi Hill, the Sri Chamundeswari Temple, dominated by a towering seven-storey, 40m-high gopuram , makes a fine half-day excursion. Pilgrims are supposed to climb the 1000-plus steps to the top; those not needing a karmic boost will find descending easier. A road goes to the top; bus 201 departs from the City bus stand in Mysore for the summit every 40 minutes. A taxi will cost around Rs200 .
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St Philomena's Cathedral
Towering St Philomena's Cathedral, built between 1933 and 1941 in neo-Gothic style, is one of the largest in India and has beautiful stained-glass windows.
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Statue of Maharaja Chamarajendar Wodeyar
Built in 1920, this statue stands in front of the north gate of the Maharaja's Palace and faces the 1927 Silver Jubilee Clock Tower.
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