Hill Palace Museum

Rare medicinal plants, space for deer to move about, beautiful physiographic and horse riding are some of the unique features of the museum. Exhibits include personal oil paintings of Kochi rulers, mural paintings, sculpture, stone edicts, coins, manuscripts, traditional throne and implements, iron frying pan, pottery of 200 years brought from China and Japan, kudakallu, thoppikkallu, stone implements believed to belonging to the Stone Age, temple models built of wood all add to the pride of the museum. Plastic models of the relics found in Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa are kept here. Besides, there is a great collection of contemporary art.

In 1980, the palace was taken over by the Department Of Archaeology and later converted into a Museum. It was opened to the public in 1986. Set on top of a hillock and surrounded by terraced gardens with fountains, ponds and lawns, this palace-turned-museum displays 14 categories of exhibits including paintings, murals, sculpture in stone and plaster of paris, manuscripts, inscriptions, carvings etc. Recently, the museum has been renovated by the Archaeological Department with a few additions such as a two-metre wide walkway built around the palace complex lit by fancy lamps on decorated cast iron pillars and two hundred lamp posts to light up the locale during early morning and at night. Apart from repairing and restoring the doors and windows, the Archeology Department also done Renovated with intricate wood carvings.
The crown and jewellery Gallery was opened in 2001. This gallery contains about 197 items. Royal Crown and gold ornaments decorated with precious stones etc. are the exhibits of the jewellery gallery. It will be opened to the public only on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Getting there
Nearest railway station: Ernakulam Railway Station, about 13 km
Nearest airport: Cochin International Airport, about 33 km
Google map coordinates: X937+2H Thrippunithura, Kochi, Kerala