All the pre-historic objects are on view in the first gallery on the ground floor of the Museum. At the entrance on the left side are two big vertical showcases exhibiting the stone tools belonging to the lower palaeolithic period to the neolithic age and also copper hoard objects. While the collection of pebble stone tools is from Guler and Soan, Acheulian handaxes are from Attirampakkam (South India). Middle palaeolithic Mousterian tools from Narmada Valley, microlithic tools of mesolithic period from Birbhanpur, Kotdiji and Langhnaj and the neolithic tools from South India are also displayed. The second vertical showcase displays the copper hoard weapons covering a period from 2500 B.C. to 1500 B.C. The specimens include rare cult objects i.e. an anthropomorphic figure from Chandausi (Muradabad), two lugged shoulder axes from Sitapur, weed chisels, harpoons, shoulder axes of various types and flat axes (all from Uttar Pradesh).

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