Ever Living Museum

The Ever Living Museum at Mawshbuit is a living testimony of one’s love for nature, culture, tradition, history and posterity. The Museum is owned and operated by retired Meghalaya government engineer Kyntiewbor War. The museum has three components — the main museum, stone museum and a garden of wild orchids, wild flowers and wild fruits. The museum is set in a garden surrounded by trees of pears, plums, and other wild fruits. The garden has some 100 varieties of orchids and wildflowers and around 25 varieties of ferns. The main museum is made of concrete and houses both ancient and contemporary weapons used by the tribes of Meghalaya. Besides, it is a treat for music lovers as one can discover a number of musical instruments here including drums, gongs, pipes, bamboo and iron mouth organs, concertina, and other string and bamboo instruments of Meghalaya. One can also find ancient smoking pipes of the Garo, Khasi, and Jaintia tribes. In the handicrafts section, there are miniature baskets, fish traps, and filters, all made of bamboo, along with the miniature tree huts of the Garo tribe and bamboo huts of the Khasi tribe. The museum also houses the ancient dresses and jewelry of the Khasi, Garo and Rabha tribes of Meghalaya. Indian and Foreign coins and currency notes are also displayed here which date back to several centuries. Close to the main museum is the stone museum where 30 types of stones collected from different parts of Meghalaya which include stone-age tools, sand-weathering rocks, granite and flintstones.