One of the most respected musuems in Jaipur, Musuem of Indology has a vast collection which includes hundred thousand objects divided in 18 sections and several sub sections. There are more than one thousand paintings based on one subject that is serpentology. It is the largest collections of its kind on this subject. There are more than fifteen thousand manuscripts, illustrated and un-illustrated, written on paper, birch bark, palm leaf and cardamom rind. Six catalogues of this outstanding collection have been published and others are under preparation. Other valuable collection is of tantric objects and manuals for practising Tantricism. Eight thousand historical documents, preserved in the archival section, are already under print. A large collection of paintings represents works done in more than one medium: water colour, lacquer and oil paint on cloth, skin, glass, paper, wood and ivory and many more things are there on display.