India, Nov. 3 -- The Bihar Museum in Patna, spread across more than 13 acres, was built because the older Patna Museum had approximately 40,000 displayable artefacts and could showcase only a fraction of them. Construction for Bihar Museum began in October 2013, with Japan's Maki and Associates and Mumbai-based OPOLIS as the architects. The museum opened partially in August 2015, and the remaining galleries opened in October 2017.

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A complete visitor's guide to Bihar Museum

Artefacts from the earliest civilisations up to 1764 are displayed at the museum. Here's a quick look at what's to see here:

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