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The Museum, promoted as “World’s First Palm-Leaf Manuscript Museum” was set up in January 2023 by the Archives Department in association with the Kerala Museum of History and Heritage. The museum is a repository of interesting glimpses of administrative, socio-cultural and economic facets of the Travancore kingdom which lasted for 650 years till the end of the 19th century. It had been the Central Vernacular Records Office since 1887 before becoming a museum. The museum has 8 theme-based galleries representing “History of Writing,” “Land and People,” “Administration,” “War and Peace,” “Education and Health,” “Economy,” “Art and Culture,” and “Mathilakam Records.”