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A Notable Feature
The Museum of Goa is housed at a new Building at the
Patto Plaze near the Ourem creek, Panaji. The most noteworthy feature of
Panjim's
State
Archeological Museum is its imposing size, which stands in glaringly
inverse proportion to the scale of the collection inside. In their bid to
erect a structure befitting a state capital, Goa's status-obsessed
bureaucrats ignored the fact that there was precious little to put in it.
The Exhibits
The only rarities to be found amid the lame array of temple sculpture,
hero stones and dowdy colonial era artifacts (also spelt as artefacts) are
a couple of beautiful Jain bronzes rescued by customs and excise officials
from smugglers and, on the ground floor, photos of the prehistoric rock
carvings at Usgalimal.