Kerala Folklore Museum
Museum · Kochi City Centre
History & overview
The Kerala Folklore Museum at Thevara in Kochi is a privately founded museum dedicated to the folk art and material heritage of Kerala. Its galleries hold thousands of artefacts — masks, wood and stone sculptures, terracotta, paintings, costumes, oil lamps and musical instruments — arranged by region and period, and the building itself is constructed in traditional Kerala styles using salvaged timber and carvings. A wooden theatre on the upper floor stages classical and folk performances.
Visiting Kerala Folklore Museum
- Entry
- ₹100 (Indian) / ₹200 (foreigner); camera ₹100
- Timings
- Around 9:30am–7:00pm, open daily
- Getting here
- Thevara, ~6 km south of Ernakulam centre, near the Thevara ferry.
Fees and timings are indicative — please confirm locally. See getting around Kochi for transport.
Facilities & highlights
Ratings & reviews
We don’t carry ratings. Review scores belong to the platform that collected them and we are not licensed to republish them, so this page shows you what we can verify ourselves instead — who runs the place, where it is, when it opens and how to reach it — and leaves the star count to the platform that owns it.
Location
Emergency & help
112All emergencies (police · fire · medical)Numbers are official/verified. In any emergency, call 112 first.
Getting here & around
Nearest transport from Kerala Folklore Museum — tap for modes & approximate fares.
Fares are indicative (Kerala MVD / KMRL rates) — confirm in-app or with the driver.
Related stories & guides
Reads to help you plan around Kerala Folklore Museum.
Travelling here safely
Safe, normal city careIs Kochi City Centre safe?
Ernakulam, mainland Kochi, is a busy, prosperous Indian city that is safe for visitors with normal urban awareness. Crowded MG Road and Broadway markets and the transport hubs call for the usual big-city care; violent crime against tourists is rare, and the main hazards are traffic and pickpocketing.
- Overall — Prosperous, orderly city; tourist police and 24/7 transport.
- Solo & women — Comfortable with normal city sense; women walk markets freely by day.
- Scams to watch — Auto/taxi overcharging, gold/textile commission pushes, fake “offices”.
- Petty theft — Mind pockets and bags in MG Road, Broadway and at the stations.
- Traffic — Heavy, fast traffic — cross with care, prefer app cabs at night.