Kathmandu, Feb. 9 -- Do you know what a dhiki does? Or have you ever used a janto to produce flour?

These traditional tools made people's daily chores easier before modern technologies were introduced. Today, we are rarely aware of their use. With the objective of teaching children about Nepal's traditional tools, the Tiger Lily Petting Farm and Hands-on Museum was built in March 2015.

It is located 2.5 kilometres away from the Araniko Highway in Suryabinayak-01. The museum has a quaint look, with large haystacks and dokos suspended from logs.

The owner, Rajendra Upreti, a biomedical device quality inspector by profession, returned to Nepal after spending two decades in the US. At first, he wanted to work with biomedical devices. But t...