Castle Kanota Hotel

Museum

The collections of General Amar Singh Kanota Library & Museum Trust, housed at Kanota, reflect a rich family tapestry. The collections hold many objects that date from Thakur Zorawar Singh’s time, with gradual additions by other members of the family, especially the multi-faceted General Amar Singh. Amar Singh is perhaps the only member of the Rajput nobility to have developed and sustained a practice of writing / chronicling. Culminating in a voluminous set of diaries, these offer a fascinating glimpse of the royal courts, colonial encounters and connected histories of Rajasthan. The rest of the collection ranges from paintings, maps, photographs, books and household accounts to carriages, arms, armour and firearms. Part of the living heritage of Kanota, many of these objects are regularly used for ceremonial purposes.