Six-gallery museum near Brahma Sarovar on Krishna and the Mahabharata, with dioramas, miniatures and a walk-through maze.
Run near Brahma Sarovar, the museum spreads over six galleries: wooden, ivory and metal artefacts; archaeological finds; miniature paintings and manuscripts; dioramas of Krishna's life; Mahabharata murals; and Pattachitra, Madhubani, leather puppets and Manipuri Raslila figures. It also has a library and guided tours; photography needs permission.
Within 1 km of Shrikrishna Museum.
NCSM science centre with a 34-ft painted panorama of the Kurukshetra war, animatronic dinosaurs and a science park.
ASI-run Mughal tomb and madrasa of the Sufi Abdur Razzak (Sheikh Chilli), teacher of Dara Shukoh, in Thanesar.
building in India
Huge sacred bathing tank at the heart of Kurukshetra, centre of the Gita Mahotsav and solar-eclipse bathing fairs.
protected Monument
Mosque in Haryana, India
Kurukshetra University's folk-life museum of Haryana: about 3,000 objects in 23 galleries, mostly donated by villagers.
Shakti Peeth temple (Shri Devi Koop) where devotees offer small clay and metal horses.
1893 steam loco shed turned museum, home of the Fairy Queen and other working steam engines.
Not-for-profit photography museum in DLF Phase IV with over 4,000 cameras.
Large private museum of Indian transport, from bullock carts to cars, with a train coach you can board.
Haryana Tourism lake in Hisar with boating, birding and picnic lawns.
1971 deer park on Hisar's outskirts with blackbuck, chital, sambar and nilgai; herbal park next door.
museum in Haryana, India
Tughlaq citadel of 1354 with Lat ki Masjid, an Ashokan pillar, baradari and underground chambers.
11th-century fort at Hansi, restored by the ASI in 1937.