Ramalinga Appa Lamture Museum, Ter
Ramalingappa Lamture Museum is a historical museum located at Ter in Osmanabad district. The museum houses the antiquities collected by Ramalingappa Khandappa Lamture, a resident of Ter village, and his late Bhagwatappa Ramalingappa Lamture. A.D. In 1961, Ramalingappa Lamture offered this collection to the government and in AD. In 1967, the Government of Maharashtra decided to acquire this collection and on 22 January 1971 Lamture handed over this collection to the government.
Halls
Ramalingappa Lamture Museum has total three halls and nearly twenty five thousand items are displayed in this hall. These include pottery, stoneware, beads, stone idols, Shadu idols, ivory crafts, shell items, bone items and various female images. Apart from these there are coins of Satavahana and other dynasties, clay replicas of coins and molds of coins. There are many types of objects in this museum and the most objects are clay idols made in this mold.
Objects
Ivory objects
Lamture Museum has ivory female figurines. These idols were used as mirror handles. There is a hole on the head of the female idol in which the mirror rods of shiny copper sheet are inserted.
Ter is 22 km from Osmanabad. The museum building is immediately visible upon entering Ter village.
Address : Kai.Ramalingappa Lamture Object Museum, Dist.Osmanabad –