The architecture of the three-storeyed Jaganmohan Palace Art Gallery and Auditorium is primarily done in Hindu style. It also mixes Indo-Saracenic and neoclassical designs.
The main door has intricate carvings on both sides chronicling the ten avatars of Lord Vishnu. The ‘Durbar Hall’ has a carved ceiling as well. In 1900, the royal auditorium hall was added to the palace.
The Jaganmohan Palace Art Gallery and Auditorium has a mural featuring the earliest known effigy of the Mysuru Dussehra painted with natural dyes.
The art gallery boasts the largest collection of artefacts in South India which exceeds 2000 articles. These correspond to different styles of Indian art styles — Mysore, Mughal, and Bengal School.
Artists such as Titian, the Ukil Brothers, Rembrandt, Nikolai & Svetoslav Roerich, S.G. Helen, Rabindranath Tagore, P.P. Ruben, K Venkatappa, and Abanindranath Tagore are represented here.
There are also displays of war weaponry, gold leaf paintings, ivory carving, sandalwood sculptures old coins, furniture, brass, pottery and currency at the Jaganmohan Palace Art Gallery Mysore.
In a dark room, you would find one of Sawlaram Haldenkar’s, ‘Lady with the Lamp,’ the sole exhibit in the room. The painting continues to haunt the viewers with its beauty and the use of light.
Another artefact, a 160-year-old French music calendar clock displays a parade of miniature soldiers every hour, with a bugle and beating drums marking the minutes and seconds respectively.