In Pics | World's First Palm-Leaf Manuscript Museum In Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram

The world's first palm leaf manuscript museum houses fascinating nuggets of administrative, socio-cultural, and economic aspects of Travancore spanning 650 years.

Thiruvananthapuram's Palm-Leaf Manuscript Museum

The recently inaugurated Palm leaf Manuscript Museum in Kerala's capital has brightened the state's cultural and academic space by housing both obscure and celebrated tales of the old Travancore kingdom, which became Asia's first to defeat any European power on Indian soil. (Image Source: Twitter/@iprdkerala)

The facility, which bills itself as the world's first palm leaf manuscript museum, is essentially a repository of curious nuggets of administrative, socio-cultural, and economic aspects of Travancore spanning a period of 650 years until the end of the 19th century, as well as documents relating to territories of Kochi in the state's middle and Malabar further north. (Image Source: Twitter/@iprdkerala)