Bapu Museum

The Bapu Museum is an archaeological museum, placed at M. G. Road of Vijayawada. It changed into renamed within the reminiscence of the famend film director, illustrator, cartoonist and author Bapu. The museum is maintained through the Archaeological department and has large collection of sculptures, artwork and artifacts of Buddhist and Hindu relics, with some of them as old as 2nd and third Centuries. The structure of building is an Indo-European style of architectural and is greater than 100 years vintage structure.

The museum become created as a part of the celebrations of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. The foundation stone was laid via Robert Sewell, District Collector of Krishna district, on 27 June 1887. Sri Pingali Venkayya supplied a tri-color flag to Mahatma Gandhi at this location in 1921. The building first of all housed commercial exhibitions. It become transformed to an archaeological museum below the auspices of the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Andhra Pradesh, in 1962.