About the Centre

Established in the year 2009 

The Yakshagana Study centre consists the following components.

• The centre is instituted and functioning in the Yakshagana Kala Mandir, a building with basic infrastructure facilities.
• The centre has a big hall and a theatre stage with seating arrangements for seven hundred fifty people.
• The added attraction of the centre is “Yaksha Mangala Museum” and nearly twenty Lifesize models of Northern and Southern Yakshagana style are installed.
• The museum includes a Photo Corner exhibiting various performance  sequences of Yakshagana

• The Costumes, dress materials and musical instruments used in  Yakshagana are exhibited seperatly.
• A Library with two thousand five hundred fifty books on Indian Theatre in general and Yakshagana in particular.
• Old rare, valuable manuscripts are preserved in the Library.
• An Audio-Video cassette collections is maintained
• Yakshamangala Video Centre with LCD fecilities has been setup to display documentary and video films produced on Yakshagana.