This museum is in the State Central Library complex where monuments for the great patriots of the state had been erected besides the statue of Smt. Indira Gandhi and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
The museum basically hosts aircraft models, actual machines and technology demonstrations used by the IAF Eastern Command. The museum displays the uniforms worn by the air force pilots, missiles, rockets, miniature models of air crafts and various other exhibits.
The museum houses objects of the Khasi, Jaintia, and Garo tribes. There is a separate gallery that shows different stones collected from all over Meghalaya along with a small collection of stone, wood, and fossils.
The museum is exhibited with the weapons relating to the War of Liberation for Bangladesh. Other items at the museum include rifles, machine guns and other equipment made by China, Iraq and NATO.
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