महाराष्ट्र विश्व संग्रहालय · ગુજરાતી · हिन्दी · English
A home museum for ages 5 to 19. Krishna, Shakti and Kalki guide children through four living zones, a 3D cyan hologram gallery, all 36 districts, 23 songs and six STEAM-M games, from the Deccan basalt to LIGO-India.
Each tile is one district, placed roughly where it lies: the Konkan coast on the left, Vidarbha on the right. Tap a tile to open it.
Your guides
Krishna, Shakti and Kalki
Three storytelling guides walk every visitor through the museum. They carry memories of the four yugas and bring them to the soil of Maharashtra. Their words below come from the museum's own scripts.
कृ
Krishna
Time, music and wisdom
Holds the flute and the eternal rhythm of time. Leads the songs and the stories of saints and seasons.
“Truth found a simpler, deeper voice here, the voice of the Warkaris walking to Pandharpur.”
श
Shakti
Nature, art and community
The creative energy of forests, festivals and the people. Leads the arts and nature exhibits.
“Look deep into this stone. This is the skeleton of Maharashtra.”
क
Kalki
Systems and renewal
Reads forts, water systems and data. Leads the engineering, mathematics and management games.
“The Western Ghats act as a climatic wall. Geography here is destiny.”
The four yugas, as a storytelling lens
Satya YugaPrimeval forests and pure rivers. Lens for nature and the Western Ghats.
Treta YugaSages, herbs and royal courts. Lens for heritage, food and craft.
Dwapar YugaChoices on the battlefield. Lens for forts, statecraft and duty.
Kali YugaSlate to silicon. Lens for technology, data and renewal.
Story corner: The Legend of Skyworld: Fire & Rice, a Sanatan Labs legend poster about transformation, sharing, respect for food and crossing boundaries.
The yugas are a traditional frame used here for storytelling. Facts in the exhibits come from history, geology and science, and the museum keeps the two clearly apart.
Museum layout
Four living zones
Each zone has its own sound world, exhibits and songs. Every exhibit has a QR code that opens the song, one verified fact, a reflection question and a small challenge.
The four zones of the Sanatan Labs home museum.
3D Holo Museum
Forts, Wari, attire and art in 3D cyan
Drag to turn, pinch or scroll to zoom. Switch to red-cyan 3D for anaglyph glasses, or to VR split for a cardboard phone viewer.
SANATAN LABS · HOLO
The 3D gallery needs WebGL and an internet connection to load its 3D library. The rest of the museum works without it.
The models are simplified teaching sculptures built from shapes, not surveyed reconstructions. Fort layouts, attire and dances are shown in spirit; visit the real places and ask local experts for details.
Short film
Swarajya: a 3D cyan short film
Subtitles in 23 languages: English, मराठी, हिन्दी, ગુજરાતી, తెలుగు, தமிழ், മലയാളം, ಕನ್ನಡ, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, कोंकणी, ଓଡ଼ିଆ, বাংলা, नेपाली, भोजपुरी, Français, Español, Deutsch, 한국어, 中文, 日本語, Русский, العربية, اردو.
Ten scenes, about ninety seconds: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's idea of Swarajya, and what it asks of Kalki Consciousness officers today.
The film is an original animation drawn in the page. Events follow widely accepted history; the Rayareshwar oath is presented as tradition. The Rajmudra verse is a 17th-century inscription.
Wari, walk and dance
The Pandharpur Wari
Every year before Ashadhi Ekadashi, lakhs of warkaris walk with the palkhis of Sant Dnyaneshwar from Alandi and Sant Tukaram from Dehu to Pandharpur, singing abhangs to the beat of tal and mridang.
2 palkhisSant Dnyaneshwar's from Alandi and Sant Tukaram's from Dehu, joined on the way by palkhis from across the state.
≈ 250 kmAbout three weeks on foot through Pune, Satara and Solapur districts to Vitthal's temple.
RinganWarkaris form a huge living circle and the palkhi's horse runs around it. Dancers then play fugdi and other games.
MauliEveryone calls everyone "Mauli" (mother). Rank and caste are set aside on the road.
Warkaris keep the beat with brass tal cymbals. Press Start, then tap on every beat for 16 beats. The gold rings mark sam, the first beat of each cycle.
Press Start to begin.
Mathematics · Alandi to Pandharpur
Wari maths
Change the number of walking days and your step length to see how far a warkari walks each day.
Folk dances of Maharashtra
Short film · folk arts
Mahasangam: आरसा हरवला!
A Marathi folk-fusion song about the lost mirror of the self. The camera travels across the artwork to Fugdi, Lezim, Koli, Dhangari Gaja, Tarpa, Gondhal, Lavani and Povada as each verse is sung, with the lyrics as subtitles.
Full lyrics (मराठी)
Camera timing follows the order of the verses and is approximate. The song's lyrics carry the PRUTL message: Pride, Rule, Usurp, Tempt and Lust lose the mirror; Peace, Respect, Trust, Unity and Love find it again.
Attire and arts
Nauvari, Paithani, pheta and folk arts
What Maharashtra wears and makes, from nine-yard saris to Warli walls. Tap View in 3D to see a piece in the hologram gallery.
The 36-district journey
Every district has a speciality
Open a district to see what it is known for, places to visit, a STEAM-M activity and a lesson through the four Sanatan Labs frameworks.
World Heritage in Maharashtra
Ajanta Caves, Ellora Caves, Elephanta Caves, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, the Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai, the Western Ghats (including Kaas Plateau), and the Maratha Military Landscapes of India. The last, inscribed in 2025, covers 12 forts: Salher, Shivneri, Lohagad, Khanderi, Raigad, Rajgad, Pratapgad, Suvarnadurg, Panhala, Vijaydurg and Sindhudurg in Maharashtra, and Gingee in Tamil Nadu.
District names follow the current official names, including Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (formerly Aurangabad), Dharashiv (formerly Osmanabad) and Ahilyanagar (formerly Ahmednagar). Check timings, entry rules and monsoon safety advisories before visiting any fort, waterfall or sanctuary.
Then to now
How villages and towns grew
Slide through time from the Satya Yuga of legend to today's smart villages. The yugas are shown as a storytelling lens; the dated eras come from archaeology and history.
The scenes are original illustrations drawn in the page from what archaeology and history describe; they are not photographs. Each era links to Wikimedia Commons, where many old prints and photographs are public domain; check the licence shown on each image before reusing it.
Deccan Plateau
Under the ground, along the rivers, up the hills
The plateau is built from layer upon layer of Deccan Trap basalt. Here is what it holds underground, where its rivers run, its highest hills, places to picnic and how to stay safe.
Underground potential
Rivers and streams
The Sahyadri crest divides the waters. Long rivers flow east across the plateau to the Bay of Bengal; short, fast rivers fall west to the Arabian Sea; the Tapi runs west along a rift valley in the north. Tap a river.
Highest hills
Approximate heights above sea level, in metres. Kalsubai is the highest point in Maharashtra.
Precautions on the Deccan Plateau
Most accidents at hills, forts and waterfalls happen in the monsoon, when places look most beautiful. Check India Meteorological Department (IMD) alerts and local closures before you go.
Picnic spots
Global goals, local ground
All 17 SDGs on the Deccan Plateau
Each UN Sustainable Development Goal, what it means here, the precaution to take and one thing a child can do.
Museum songbook
23 songs · मराठी × English × हिन्दी × ગુજરાતી
Fifteen exhibit songs, 14 of them with full recordings, six division anthems and a Maharashtra–Gujarat friendship song. Press play on a recorded song, or tap Play rhythm for a beat sketch.
One 75-second structure for every track
0–8 sSignature sound of the exhibit
8–25 sVerse 1, Marathi introduction
25–42 sVerse 2, English discovery
42–58 sVerse 3, Hindi refrain and hook
58–75 sMultilingual chorus and ending
The rhythm sketches are simple synthesised beats to help with rehearsal and do not replace recordings with live dhol, tasha, tabla and voices. Record each song with a lead singer, a children's chorus and real instruments.
Watch and visit
Films from PASSIONIT Entertainment
Songs and films that carry the museum's values. They open on YouTube in a new tab.
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics and Management. Each game starts from a real place and ends with a question to think about.
Science · Buldhana · Lonar
Crater Maker
Lonar Lake sits in a crater about 1.8 km wide, made when a space rock struck basalt. Choose a rock and its speed to see the energy and the crater it could make.
Technology · Mumbai · Dabbawalas
Dabbawala Code
Mumbai's dabbawalas deliver lakhs of lunches each day with a painted code instead of computers. In this simplified code, the second set of letters is the destination station. Send each tiffin to the right crate.
Engineering · Raigad · Hill forts
Fort Cistern Engineer
Sahyadri forts survived the dry months with rock-cut tanks (taka) filled by the monsoon. Size the catchment and see if the garrison lasts the 240 dry days from October to May.
Arts · Palghar · Warli
Warli Studio
Warli painters use rice paste on a mud wall. A person is two triangles joined at the tip; the tarpa dance is a spiral of joined hands. Build your own wall.
Mathematics · Every doorstep · Rangoli
Rangoli Symmetry
A rangoli drawn at Gudi Padwa or Diwali repeats one shape around a centre. Change the symmetry order and watch the angle change.
Management · Ahilyanagar · Hiware Bazar
Village Water Budget
Hiware Bazar became a model village by planning water together. Run a 1,000-hectare village with 1,500 people: choose watershed works and crops, and keep the water balance above zero.
The games use simplified models with rounded, illustrative numbers. They teach how quantities relate; they are not engineering or farming advice.
How learning works
Four frameworks, one museum
Every exhibit, district and game is read through the same four questions. These are Sanatan Labs teaching frameworks; the lessons are educational mappings, not claims about where each tradition comes from.
