Location : Allahabad
Houses : Collection Of Sculptures From Sunga, Gupta Period.
Specialty : Terracotta Figurines From Kaushambi. 

The Allahabad Museum has an impressive collection of Sunga, Gupta, late Gupta and early medieval period sculptural masterpieces, discovered at different places around Allahabad. During the last twenty-five years a sizeable number of sculptures, mostly pertaining to the early medieval and medieval art styles have been added to the collection of the museum. 

Nearly 400 sculptures broadly classified sect wise starting with the various categories of brahmanical gods followed by deities of the Buddha and Jain pantheon and terminating with secular and miscellaneous themes including architectural members have also been included. 

Comprehensive selection of of objects from 3rd century BC, first through 3rd century AD, 4th through 7th century AD and 8th through 14 th century AD. These periods roughly correspond to the Maurya, Sunga, Kushan Gupta and medieval periods of Indian history. The museum is open all days except Monday from 10.30 AM to 4.30 PM.

Location : Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh).
Moved To New Premises In : 1963.
Specialty: Egyptian Mummies.
Timings : All Days Except Monday.

The State Museum, located in a modern three-storeyed building at Banarasibagh in Lucknow was once situated in the historic Choti Chattar Manzil and the Lal Baradari, the erstwhile Coronation Hall of the Nawabs of Avadh. 

Moved in 1963 to its new premises, situated incompatibly in the Prince of Wales Zoological Gardens, the State Museum initially had a splendid collection centered on the arts of Avadh and objects related to the customs, habits and mythology of India. Gradually, it expanded to include excavated antiquities from Piparahawa, Kapilavastu, where the Buddha grew up. 

THE PRICELESS POSSESIONS
A multipurpose museum, it houses valuable and prized collection of sculptures, bronzes, paintings, natural history and anthropological specimens, coins, textiles and decorative arts. 

The exceptional invaluables include: 
· an inscribed wine jar bearing the name of Aurangzeb Alamgir (1 7th century) 
· A jade chamakali with the name 'jahangir' and the date 1036 AD. 
· A 16th century painting of a scene from the Kalpasutra, depicting an elephant rider and a Jain muni. 
· A 16th century copy of the Harivansha in Persian with nine illustrations. 
· Rare silver and gold coins, a prehistoric anthropomorphic figure.
· A fossilised plant. 
· The Egyptian mummies. 
· The wooden sarcophagus, dating back to 1000 BC. 
Among the rare stone sculptures is the earliest image of Balarama and a 'panchmukhi shivalinga' (both 2nd century BC), and a statue of Saraswati, reputed for the earliest depiction (2nd century AD). The coin collection dates from 6th century BC onwards. Two recent acquisitions are Jahangir's silver zodiac coins made at the Ahmedabad mint. 

The archaeology section, the Lal Baradari in the Kaisarbagh unit of the museum, has on display the excavated antiquities from Uttar Pradesh. 

The State Museum is open all days except Monday, from 10.30 am to 4.30 pm. 

Location : Sarnath (Utar Pradesh).
Significance : Archaeological Museum.
Main Attraction : Ashokan Pillar.
Timings : All Days Except Friday.

The museum at Sarnath has an excellent collection of figures and sculptures from Sarnath's Mauryan, Kushan and Gupta periods. Among them is the earliest Buddha image found at Sarnath and many images of Hindu gods dating from the 9th to 12th centuries. 

The main attraction of this Archaeological Museum is the superb capital from the Ashokan Pillar. It has the Ashokan symbol of four back-to-back lions, which has been adopted as the state symbol of modern India. Below this are representations of a lion, an elephant, horse and the bull. 

The lion is supposed to represent bravery, the elephant symbolises the dream Buddha's mother had before his birth and the horse recalls that Buddha left his home on horseback in search of enlightenment.

The stone sculptures from the site of Sarnath are divided in several museums, the major chunk being in the local museum. The Director General of Archaeological Survey of India has loaned some pieces discovered from Sarnath to this museum. They represent deities of the Buddhist and Brahmanical pantheons. 

The museum is open every day except Friday from 10 am to 4.30 pm. 

Location: Mathura (Uttar Pradesh)
Found by: F.S. Growse
Found in: 1874
Collections Include: Mathura School of Sculptures of 3rd century B.C 

The rich treasure of antiquarian values unearthed by Cunnigham, Growse, Fuhrer and others formed the nucleus of this museum. The museum was founded by the collector, F.S. Growse in 1874. The collections were shifted to the present building in 1930. Regional in character its scope was limited primarily to the archeological finds from the Mathura region. The vast collection includes stone sculptures, bas reliefs, architectural fragments, inscriptions of various faiths and creeds, coins, terracotta, inscribed bricks, pottery pieces, clay seals, bronze objects and paintings. The museum has the richest and by far the most important collection of the Mathura School of Sculptures of 3rd century B.C - 12th century A.D.