More than 122,700 tourists visited the Gorkha Durbar Museum in Gorkha district in a year.
Chief of the Gorkha Durbar Museum, Jayanarayan Karki, said that the number of visitors here reached 122,000 including 84,257 domestic tourists in the fiscal year 2024/25, adding that the visitors come here for study and observation purposes.
He said that the number of the visitors has gradually increased as the visitors were 119,187 in the fiscal year 2023/24.
According to Karki, a total of 36,298 students visited the Gorkha Durbar Museum for their academic excursion while 2,003 people from the third countries visited the museum.
The Gorkha Durbar Museum was opened to the public in 2008.
The museum mostly displays the life of King Prithvi Narayan Shah, the unifier of modern Nepal, the weapons used during that time, costumes of different ethnic communities and bands.