Museums of South Goa with guide and lunch

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Stop At: Goa - Chitra, St. John the Baptist Church Road Mondo-Waddo, Benaulim, 403716 India

Chitra is an ethnographical museum and out first halt in this South Goa Museum tour. It displays the lifestyle of people, their indigenous methods, their craftsmanship and their art and folklore. The original 200 privately collected items have grown to more than 4000 objects on display. The Museum houses a wide range of exhibits depicting the material culture of Goa before the electricity era.

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: big foot museum, Goa Beach Estate Land, Morjim, Goa 403512, India

igfoot Cross Museum is the next destination in this South Goa Museum tour. It is a miniature Goan village set up to recreate the rural life of old days. It is privately run by an artist called Maendra Jocelino Araujo Alvares. The open-air museum re-creates Goan rural life as it was a hundred years ago. In this model village, one can also see different miniature houses that showcase traditional occupation and social classes such as fishermen, Goan artisans, a Music school known as Escola da Musica, farmers, liquors shops, the village market, and a feni distillery. A highlight here is the giant 14-meter sculpture of Sant Mirabai carved in 30 days which is also the longest laterite sculpture in India.

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Museum Of Christian Art, Convent of Santa Monica, Velha Goa, Goa 403402, India

The Museum of Christian Art is the only one of its kind in Asia and our next halt in this South Goa Museum tour. This visit brings alive the richness of Indo-Portuguese Christian Art from Goa. Every object displayed in the museum reflects the immense wealth of the Churches of Goa. An interesting aspect of the collection is that many were made by local Hindu artists! During the Portuguese times, the demand for the religious artwork was extremely high and the exhibits could not be shipped from Portugal. To make up for the demand, Hindu artists were contracted to complete the religious artworks.

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: The Archaeological Museum, Old Goa, Off Old Goa Road (route 748), Cola India

Built in 1964, the ASI Museum is housed in the convent portion of the church of St. Francis of Assisi is the final destination in the South Goa Museum tour. The collection of exhibits range from prehistoric and early historic period to the late mediaeval period. Our special guide will bring alive the significance of the collection including the display of the portrait paintings of governors and viceroys, wooden sculptures, pillars, capitals, postal stamps and other objects from the Portuguese period in Goa.

Duration: 45 minutes