UDAIPUR
A recreated village of huts from Rajasthan, Gujarat and Goa with live craft demos - best during the Shilpgram Utsav festival (usually late December), otherwise it can feel sparse on weekday afternoons with few artisans actually working.
Established in 1989 by the West Zone Cultural Centre, a Ministry of Culture body, and inaugurated by then-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Shilpgram was built as a living showcase of rural crafts and vernacular architecture. Spread across roughly 70 acres of Aravalli foothill terrain 3 km west of the city, it contains 31 huts reproducing traditional building styles from the four western Indian states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Goa. It hosts the annual Shilpgram Utsav each December, drawing hundreds of artisans and performers and hundreds of thousands of visitors.
