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 Situated on the
picturesque bank of Picchola Lake, Bagore Ki Haveli was built by
Amarchand Badava, chief minister of the former Bagore thikana in the
18th century. This palatial building reportedly has 138 rooms,
balconies, terraces, courtyards and corridors. What was once upon a
time a living centre of nobility of Udaipur lay in darkness and ruin
for nearly half a century till when it was handed over to the West
Zone Cultural Centre (WZCC) in 1986.
Right from the beginning, the WZCC thought it appropriate to convert
the Haveli into a museum. Originally the idea was to represent the
culture of Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat and Rajasthan, the West Zone
States, in the proposed museum. On second thoughts it was felt that
the Haveli had a very typical and charming architectural style and a
unique character - it was a veritable architectural museum by
itself- and therefore it would not be appropriate to
bring into it features of Goan or Maharashtrian culture which would
be ill-at-ease in
 an unrelated environment like the Haveli.
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