Meghalaya State Museum is a frequented tourist spot that displays a vast collection of artifacts of tribal era and a collection of ancient scriptures. The museum houses a habitat section displaying living places of tribes, instruments used for day-to-day activities such as hunting and fishing. It showcases the lifestyle and cultural diversity of various tribes, especially the Khasi tribe in various sections. The museum was a part of the state of Assam till 1972, formation year of Meghalaya for exhibiting ethnographic and archeological objects.