Today’s Museum Visit and heritage walk almost turned out to be solo when @NERKARAMIT joined on a rainy day in Pune at the Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal Museum.
After marveling at the 19th-century stone building, we walked to the museum premises that opened up in a huge yard.
This housed a large number of stone sculptures, some of which were in good condition, whereas most were ruins collected from Hindu temples destroyed by the Turks.
Inside the museum were several galleries and glass cases displaying medival Indian weapons, idols, manuscripts, and metalware.
Within the museum premises was also an auditorium that hosted shows and debates for history buffs.
On the front side is a bust of the famous Indian historian V.K. Rajwade.
The museum also had a library, and a souvenir shop that mostly had posters of historic figure on sale.
Some miscellaneous items at the museum were:
- A banana tree with buds.
- Old type of switches used in the museum.
- An amazing manhole cover with the theme - Save Trees.
- Receipt of the entrance fees.
After the museum visit, Amit and I had tea just across the street.
This is Vittal Tea Shop, not yet added to maps. Edit is pending approval.
Bun Maska was not available at the time of the visit.
Outside the tea shop was also a small temple in the middle of the street, which was typical of the lanes of Old Town Pune.
Adjacent to the temple is a charity drinking water, which is a stark contrast to Europe and the US, where drinking water must be purchased.
Online attendees were @MathanVibranarayan - thank you for hosting.
@TravellerG, @NandKK, @_Musafir, Dr. @K.K.Sharma, @Gurukrishnapriya, @JitendraKumarprasa, and many others that I cannot see in the Screenshot.
Amit Nerkar shared several amazing stickers and a sticker pouch - all branded with the Local Guides logo 
He also shared a DTF sticker that I tried on a mug.
We also had the Local Guides stamp on our wrists and proudly displayed it.
My 24-year-old coffee mug and another sipper came to life after applying the DTF stickers shared by Amit.
A note on accessibility at the museum.
The main entrance was wheelchair accessible.
The elevator was wheelchair accessible.
The auditorium was wheelchair accessible.
The washroom was wheelchair accessible.
This was in response to the challenges by @Rahul001 and @TravellerG, here and here
