Museum and Palaces in Thrissur is one of the most popular tourist destinations, which thousands of visitors visit year. This palace has an architectural, historic and cultural value and is turned into a museum of history to offer tourists the opportunity to visit Kerala traditionally. These palaces reflect not only the majesty of Indian art, but are also completely different from the Northern Indian palace culture in sculpture and building.
Shakthan Thampuran Palace
The Shakthan Thampuran Palace is a well-known historical structure built by King Rama Varma Shakthan Thampuran, the former Maharaja of Cochin and the founder of Thrissur. It is one of Thrissur’s most popular tourist sites, with thousands of visitors each year. The palace is a historic, cultural, and architectural treasure that has been converted into a heritage museum to provide visitors with a typical Kerala tour. The palace, which was built in the Dutch and Kerala styles, is one of the few of its kind in Kerala. The palace’s main structure is a two-story construction with a typical Kerala style Naalukettu. The interiors of the palace, due to their unique structure, provide comfortable and pleasant living circumstances regardless of the weather.
Archeological Museum
The state zoo compound includes the Archaeological Museum, which is located in the city of Thrissur, Kerala. In 1948, the archaeological gallery was added to the already existing art gallery. The galleries were later relocated to a new building in 1975. The museum has amassed a huge collection of varied objects over time. It houses, for example, a number of life-size statues of notable figures such as tribal chiefs, prominent artists, kings, freedom fighters, and reformers. Here are also preserved highly detailed and painstakingly built models of historic buildings and temples, as well as manuscripts from the past that contain Kerala’s history. The palace was built using a unique mixture of Dutch and indigenous Kerala architectural elements. High roofs, solid walls, spacious halls, and Italian marble floors distinguish the palace. The Museum is well-known for its murals and treasures from various districts of Kerala. Sri Anujan Achan, the then-Government Archaeologist, collected the majority of the museum’s exhibits.
Appan Thampuran Smarakam
Appan Thampuran is a well-known Malayalam author who is credited with ushering in a new wave of unusual ideas and path-breaking questions into Keralite literature. In Malayalam literature, he is regarded to have started the Renaissance (the resurgence of European art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries). In Malayalam literature, his contributions are compared to those of Miguel Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote in European literature. Appan Thampuran exhibited extraordinary bravery in asking unorthodox questions. When a barrier prohibiting non-Hindus from entering a temple in Kerala was erected, Appan Thampuran publicly opposed the action, saying that any location where people could not enter should be handed to the municipality to dump rubbish.
Vaidyaratnam Ayurveda Museum
Ayurveda, or the Science of Life (Ayur- means Life or Longevity, and Veda means Science or Knowledge), is one of the oldest systems of health care, dating back over 5000 years and originating in the pristine continent of India. Ayurveda is a comprehensive therapeutic system that uses herbs and other natural materials to promote eternal health. The Vaidyaratnam Ayurveda Museum is located in Thaikkattussery, Thrissur District, near Ollur. Visitors interested in seeing how Ayurveda has been passed down over the generations can do so here. The museum is housed in a two-story historic traditional main structure. The main Museum has exhibits dedicated to the history of Ayurveda, including mythological, Vedic, Sahitha, Sangraha, and Medieval periods, as well as exhibitions on Kerala’s Ayurveda tradition. A 3D gallery for traditional education, treatments, medicine manufacturing, and current developments, as well as a library with a large collection of ancient scripts and texts used by Ashtavaidyas, and a Multimedia Touch Screen digital Library with a large collection of videos of Kerala Ayurvedic treatments and digital palm leaf manuscripts, are all available at the museum.
Kollengode Palace
There has a number of exquisite palaces in Thrissur, with the Kollengode Palace being one of the most well-known. Although it is not as old as the Sakthan Thampuran Palace, it is nonetheless over a century old (104 to be exact) and is now considered a heritage structure. The palace is architecturally stunning and transports you back in time to a time when royalty reigned supreme, allowing you to experience what life was like for the royals of the time. For his adored daughter, the Raja of Kollengode commissioned the construction of this castle. While the original structure (known as Kalari Kovilakam) is still standing in Palakkad, a portion of the royal grounds and this building have been preserved in Thrissur.