Lalgarh Palace & Museum

The Royal Lalgarh Palace & Museum is in Bikaner. The Lalgarh Palace is one of the best places to see in Bikaner. It is one of the few palaces the British built for Indian kings.

The Lalgarh Palace & Museum in Rajasthan is a beautiful example of Indo-Saracenic architecture. It is also home to a museum that shows royal artefacts, photographs, and hunting trophies that show the Bikaner royal family's long history and tradition. The Lalgarh Palace & Museum must be visited during the Bikaner tour package.

The history of Lalgarh Palace & Museum

The Lalgarh Palace in Bikaner is one of the most impressive palaces in Rajasthan's past. It stands in a royal setting and tells stories of great kings and queens. Between 1902 and 1926 CE, the British builder Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob built the palace for Maharaja Ganga Singh.

Structure of the Lalgarh Palace & Museum

Tourists can see the Indian, European, and Mughal styles in the Lalgarh Palace. Red sandstone from the Thar Desert was used to build the three-story structure. The Bikaner royal family still lives in the house and has their room. The house has a lovely entrance and many balconies and latticework that hang over the sides. 

The most exciting things about the building are its complicated framework and network. Aside from this, the other interesting things about the palace complex are the grounds with dancing peacocks and bougainvillea.

The building has beautiful pillars and stoves with lots of small details. Italian colonnades, latticework, and filigree work are very complicated. This building has an Art Deco indoor swimming pool and the Darbar hall in the Karni Niwas wing. The palace is now a historical hotel inside the old Lalgarh Palace. The big, airy rooms have a strong British influence, even though the Welcome group took over management in 1993 and made many improvements.

Library in the Museum

The world's fourth most extensive private library is in the west wing, also home to the Sri Sadul Singh Museum. At the front of the museum is a metre-gauge train coach that the Maharaja and his family used. The art museum is named after the kings of Bikaner, who came before and after Maharaja Ganga Singh, Sadul Singh, and Karni Singh.

Some of the things you can see in the museum as part of a tour of Bikaner are paintings, artefacts, pictures, and hunting trophies from Georgia. In addition, the museum has a section for each king that shows their life and heroic acts.