📍 Palace📍 Museum📍 Heritage

Umaid Bhawan Palace

Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

4.5 (0)

Overview

The world's largest private residence's public face — a 347-room Art Deco palace of golden sandstone, part royal home, part Taj hotel, part museum.

Why visit: Depression-era grandeur that employed 3,000 famine-hit workers.

Things to do

›Art Deco galleries
›Vintage car collection
›Palace façade lawns

Museum Visit

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–Mar

Entry fee

Museum ₹30

Est. budget

₹100–300

Duration

1–2 hrs

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Within

2.6 km

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📍 Memorial

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Jaswant Thada

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📍 Fort

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Mehrangarh Fort

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💎 Hidden Gem📍 Park

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Rao Jodha Desert Rock Park

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📍 Garden

4.2

Mandore Gardens

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