Painting has been considered as the most impressive medium of arts. The small paintings known as miniatures are manifestations of perfect physical forms with a celestial beauty of line and rhythm. The earliest known miniatures were painted in Eastern India on the stips of palm-leaf between 10th and 12th centuries. In Western five centuries (1100-1600). The introduction of paper that later substituted for cloth and palm-leaf, brought about the rise of new schools of paintings. The main characterstics of early Jaina paintings are protruding further eye and profuse use of ornamentation and gold. The Saraswati Pata, painting on cloth, is a rare example of this style displayed in the gallery. The Museum has in its possession the rich heritage of Indian paintings numbering over 17000. These have been acquired mostly through purchases from the art dealers, private collectors and art connoisseurs, through a few of them came as gift. Also, there is a good collection of Tibetan and Nepali Thankas, Tanjore and Mysore paintings, Ganjifa cards, drawings, cloth paintings, cloth paintings and scrolls covering a period from 1600-1900

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