The number of visitors to the Gorkha Durbar Museum, which has been open to the public since 2065, is increasing every year. On Saturday, the museum celebrated its 17th foundation day. In 2065/066, the first year the museum was opened, 36,529 people visited the museum.

 In the first year, 3 lakh 52 thousand 3 hundred 5 rupees revenue was collected from the visitors who visited the museum, including the entrance fee. Jaynarayan Karki, head of the museum, said that the revenue has been increasing along with the visitors in the years since then. In the last financial year 2079/080, 123 thousand 731 people visited the museum. He said that in that financial year, the revenue amount was 23 lakh 66 thousand 411 rupees. 

In a period of 16 years, only 1 million 61 thousand 354 visitors have visited the Gorkha Museum. Only 1 lakh 4 thousand 335 people have visited the museum during 10 months of the current financial year. It is mentioned in the data that 33 thousand 853 students visited the museum in the current financial year alone. 69 thousand 280 Nepalis, 110 people from SAARC countries and 1 thousand 392 foreign tourists visited the museum during 10 months of this year.

Gorkha Museum was opened to the general public on 19th June 2065. In the museum, materials related to the Gorkha state which are important from the historical, archaeological, religious and cultural point of view have been collected and displayed. Treaty agreements in that time, domestic weapons used in the unification campaign, costumes used by castes, fictional oil paintings expressed by the then kings in the state expansion unification campaign, Prithvi Narayan Shah's  The longest (34-armed) China (Janmakundali) is on display. The divine teachings of Prithvi Narayan Shah have also been Nepalized.

artistic utensils and wares, silver seals issued when Prithvi Narayan Shah was the king of Gorkha are also on display. He said that other rooms will also be expanded for the performance.  The museum is also the choice of students who visit the museum for educational purposes. 

Students will get an opportunity to understand the historical, archaeological, political and cultural aspects of Gorkha district by visiting the museum. Karki says that the museum is an open school. "Where an opportunity is provided to study on the basis of religious, historical and archeological evidence along with history by directly seeing it," he said. 

The museum celebrated its 17th foundation day on Saturday in the presence of the director general of the archeology department, Saubhagya Pradhanang.