State Museum
Awadhi court arts, Gandharan sculpture and an Egyptian mummy, in an institution founded in 1863.
Closed Mondays; enter via the zoo.
90 min
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Lucknow
Awadh's capital of etiquette and appetite — vaulted imambaras raised as famine relief, kebabs pounded soft as folklore, and the ruined Residency where the empire turned.
Gomti
1722
Awadh's nawabs
Saadat Khan founds the dynasty.
1784
Famine relief
The Bara Imambara rises as a public work.
1857
The siege
The Residency is besieged for nearly five months.
1916
The Lucknow Pact
Congress and the League agree, briefly.
Kalka-Bindadin ki Dyodhi
Gifted to the family by Nawab Wajid Ali Shah in the 19th century, this ancestral home of Birju Maharaj preserves memorabilia of the Lucknow Kathak gharana.
Closed Mondays; no photography.
45 min
Husainabad Picture Gallery
Life-size portraits of the nawabs of Awadh in an 1838 baradari by the Husainabad tank.
Included in the Bara Imambara ticket.
30 min