Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous Cultures

Don Bosco Museum is situated at Mawlai and was opened to the public towards the end of 2003. The seven-floor museum with 56,000 square feet of floor space and 15,154 square feet of display wall space, contains seventeen galleries displaying cultural artefacts and paintings. It offers study and research facilities throughout its specialized library of 10,000 volumes, a media hall and a conference hall. It is frequented by school students and other research students and anthropologists, since this area of India is an anthropologist’s paradise.

A three-in-one institution combining a museum with a research and publication centre, for promoting and preserving the rich cultural heritage of  North East India – It is a unique fusion of all the sister states under one roof. Built in hexagonal shape, its seven floors represent the seven states of North East India. The building rises to form a flame, expressing the reality that if cultures are understood well, they can form a communion of cultures for a better society.