Arakkal Museum

A main building of the palace complex has been converted into a museum(Arakkal Museum) that exhibits artifacts and heirlooms of the royal family. These include the family seal, the pathayam (the wooden box in which grain was stored), document box and so on. The royal copies of the Holy Koran, an old-fashioned telephone, swords and daggers used by the rulers, and a telescope are also on display.

Apart from these, there are exhibits that stand as testimonies to the Arakkal rulers’ relationship with European colonial powers as well as those relating to their maritime activities and monopoly on spice trade.

Artefacts and heirlooms of the royal family are well preserved at the museum. It is the main building of the palace complex converted into the museum to exhibit the family seal, the pathayam (the wooden box in which grain was stored), document box and so on. We can also see the royal copies of the Holy Koran, an old-fashioned telephone, swords and daggers used by the rulers, and a telescope there. The museum also gives the visitors a chance to take a view on those documents that stand as testimonies to the Arakkal rulers’ relationship with European colonial powers as well as those relating to their maritime activities and monopoly on spice trade.

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Reference:https://www.keralatourism.org