The Museum houses 35 galleries housing over 100,000 rare and unique artefacts from the Humanities and Natural Sciences of both Indian and Foreign origin and divided into three wings: Archaeology, Anthropology, art as well as eight coordinating service units such as preservation, publication, photography, presentation, modelling, education, library and security. The galleries of the museum are – The Gandhara gallery, Coins gallery, Late Archaeology gallery, Painting gallery, Bronze gallery, Decorative arts, Birds and Fish gallery, Mammals gallery, Textile gallery, Masks gallery, Botanical and Zoological gallery, and lastly Insects gallery. The major galleries of the museum are Bharhut gallery and the Egypt gallery.