Things to do in  Bhopal

Despite its governmental-sounding name (literally “India house”), Bhopal’s Bharat Bhavan is a multi-arts center designed by Indian architect and urban planner Charles Correa in 1982. It includes an art gallery of Indian painting and sculpture, art workshops, performance spaces, libraries of poetry and classical and folk music, a bookshop, and a museum of tribal and folk art.

Early human inhabitants of India sketched mythical animals, dance and battle scenes, Hindu gods, and human figures on the walls of the Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, comprising about 700 caves and shelters in the Vindhyan Hills of west-central Madhya Pradesh. Some of the rock art, among the oldest in India, dates back to the Late Paleolithic Period, and is, by some accounts, roughly 30,000 years old.