The Ancestral Goa Theme Park and Big Foot Museum

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The Ancestral Goa Theme Park and Big Foot Museum

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Overview

The Ancestral Goa Theme Park and Big Foot Museum is a museum and a theme park based in Loutolim. The museum recreates a Goan village in miniature that seeks to depict what the local rural life was in the past over a century ago. The museum houses statues of a Portuguese soldier brandishing a spear, a statue of Lord Parashuram, a fisherman, and other villagers, women selling fish, farmers working in paddy fields and other occupations of the past. It is peppered with antiques, paintings and period furniture, including typical shell windows, the high ceiling and heavy carved wooden furniture.

Highlights

The museum is located in an open-air setting

The entryway and foyer have been designed to look like the gates of a castle and the foyer of an old-fashioned mansion, gracious and welcoming

Legend has it is that Goa was created by an arrow shot by Lord Parashurama, and his statue, taking aim with his bow is one of the first sights within the compound.

Has a the longest laterite sculpture in India, and depicts Sant Mirabai strumming her Tambori

Find out more about the Legend of the Big Foot

Also visit the Rubber Plantation and the Art Gallery