The Manipur State Museum inaugurated on 23rdSeptember, 1969 is now a full-fledged multipurpose museum comprising of various galleries like Ethnology, Archaeology, Natural History, Art Gallery, Jallan’s Gallery, Children Gallery and HiyangHiren (Royal boat) shed.

Apart from its normal duties like collection, preservation, documentation, exhibition etc. the museum has become an educational research centre and also organized numerous outreach programmes. Some of the regular programmes of the Manipur State museum are Cultural Appreciation Course, Workshop on Conservation of Biological specimens, Celebration of International Museum Day etc.