Museum of Evolution of Life, one of the important wings of the Government Museum and Art Gallery was inaugurated on August 13, 1973. The section of Cyclorama - Evolution of Life was opened in its first phase. In 1974-75 parts of the sections of Pre-history, Geology and Astronomy were added. The Cyclorama - Evolution of Life - is first of its kind in Asia, and has 14 geological landscape paintings illustrating the origin of earth, evolution of life from unicellular organism to multi-cellular plants and animals through the Archeaozoic, Paleaozoic, Permian, Devonian, Triassic, Jurassic, Oligocene, Miocene and Pleistocene periods.