Mathura Museum

Government Museum, Mathura

Rajkiya Sangrahalaya
Established	1874
Location	Mathura
Director	A K Pandey

Government Museum, Mathura commonly referred as Mathura museum is an archaeological museum in Mathura city of Uttar Pradesh state in India. The museum was founded by then collector of the Mathura district, Sir F. S. Growse in 1874. Initially it was known as Curzon Museum of Archaeology, then Archaeology Museum, Mathura, and finally changed to the Government Museum, Mathura.

The museum houses artifacts pottery, sculptures, paintings, and coins primarily from in and around Mathura, plus discoveries made by noted colonial archaeologists like Alexander Cunningham, F. S. Growse, and Fuhrer. The museum is famous for ancient sculptures of the Mathura school dating from 3rd century BC to 12th century AD., during Kushan Empire and Gupta Empire. today it is one of the leading museums of Uttar Pradesh.

The Government of India issued a postage stamp on October 9, 1974 on the centenary of the museum.

Archaic Mother Goddess, Prehistory, 4th Century BCE

3000-year-old anthropomorphic copper figure (ACCN 93-51) found at Shahabad, UP

Jain Tirthankara head, 2nd century BCE

Naigamesha Jain god of Childbirth, Shunga Empire, 2nd century BCE or earlier

Jain Tablet, 1st Century

Jain chaumukha sculpture with Suparshvanatha and Three Other Tirthankaras, 1st century

Parshvantha, Kushan Period, 2nd century

Statue of Kanishka I (ca. 127 – ca. 140), Kushan Empire.

Head of Buddha. C. 5th Century CE, Chamunda mound, Mathura district

Jain chaumukha sculpture, 6th century

Rishabhanatha idol, 6th century

Parshvanatha, Post Gupta Period, 6th-8th Century CE

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