This museum is a spacious two-storied building. In the ground floor there are life size dolls dressed as Mudalapaya Yakshagana artists, coorg couple, Dasayya and Goravayya - village characters, pied piper, Halakki Vokaaligas- who perform dances of nomadic tribe and harvest dances. The other rarities that find a place here are various arms and weapons, the articles used in wedding ceremony, weights and measures of yester years, ritual items used while performing pooja and lastly a few items from the kitchen. The Central courtyard in the ground floor displays large wooden idols of 'Bootha' or Ghost worship.
The First floor exhibits a rare collection of various folk instruments and other wooden parts of chariots and stone idols. Special dolls made of hides-Togalu Gombegalu, puppets, apparels of Badagu tittu and Tenkutittu Yakshagana artists (Forms of Folk Theatre), Ganjeefa art pieces (playing cards), children's playthings, Soma and Harige(masks) exhibited here capture the hearts and minds of the visitors
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