Don Bosco Museum

The Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous Cultures in Shillong houses one of Northeast India's most comprehensive museums dedicated to the region's diverse tribal cultures, spread across multiple floors covering the customs, crafts, dress and daily life of communities across all eight Northeastern states. The museum's top floor observation deck additionally offers one of the best panoramic views over Shillong available from any public building in the city.

Given the sheer diversity of Northeast India's tribal communities — often difficult for visitors to appreciate in a single trip across the physically vast and culturally varied region — the museum offers an unusually thorough single-location introduction to this diversity, making it a valuable stop for anyone seeking to understand the wider cultural context beyond Meghalaya's Khasi and Garo communities specifically.

Established by the Salesians of Don Bosco specifically to document and preserve the indigenous cultures of Northeast India, the museum represents one of the most ambitious dedicated efforts to catalogue the region's exceptional tribal cultural diversity in a single institution.

In Shillong, easily reached by road within the city.