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Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace

#3of 8 places to visit in BengaluruBengaluru, Karnataka

Also known as Bangalore Fort Palace

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Opening hours: 08:30–17:30. Entry: ₹25 Indian · ₹300 foreign. Allow 1 hr. Best time: 08:30 – 10:00.

Updated 18 September 2026 · Compiled by Traveliac, AI-assisted · 4 min read

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Opening hours: 08:30–17:30
Entry fee: ₹25 Indian; Ticket from
Time needed: 1 hr
Best time of day: 08:30 – 10:00
Best months: Oct – Mar
Address: Albert Victor Road, Chamrajpet, near Bangalore Fort, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560018

About Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace

Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace stands within the old walls of Bangalore Fort in Chamrajpet, a two-storey structure built almost entirely of teakwood over a construction period of ten years. Hyder Ali began the project in 1781, and his son Tipu Sultan completed it in 1791, giving the palace an Indo-Islamic character built for a working military and administrative seat rather than pure display — the fort setting was functional, not ornamental. Ornate teak pillars, cusped arches, and painted balconies carry floral motifs alongside painted murals depicting historical battle scenes, executed in a style distinct from the stone-built palaces more commonly associated with South Indian royalty. The ground floor today houses a small museum of Tipu-era artefacts — clothing, coins, weapons, and silver vessels among them — along with a replica of Tipu's Tiger, the mechanical automaton depicting a tiger mauling a European soldier. The original mechanism sits in London's Victoria and Albert Museum; what visitors see here is a reproduction, a detail worth knowing before expecting to see the genuine object.

Best time of day: 08:30 – 10:00. Shortly after opening, when the teak interior is at its coolest and least crowded.

Photography

₹25 camera fee

Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace timings

Opening hours: 08:30–17:30; Mon–Sun 08:30–17:30
Closed on: Open every day

Mon–Sun	08:30–17:30

Opening hours compiled from asi.nic.in and public records, last updated 18 September 2026. They change without notice — confirm before you travel. How we write these guides

Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace ticket price

Entry fees for Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace
Ticket	Price
Indian visitors	₹25
Foreign visitors	₹300
Children	Free
Camera	₹25

Indian nationals ₹25, foreign nationals ₹300 at the counter as of 2026 (slightly lower online rates of ₹20/₹250 are reported on ASI's booking portal); children under 15 enter free. A still-camera ticket costs around ₹25. Note: this Chamrajpet palace inside Bangalore Fort is a separate ASI monument from the similarly named Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace (Daria Daulat Bagh) in Srirangapatna near Mysore — confirm the address before travelling.

Prices compiled from asi.nic.in and public records, last updated 18 September 2026. They change without notice — confirm before you travel. How we write these guides

Best time to visit Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace

Quiet
Moderate

08:30 – 10:00
Morning OpeningBest time to go
First visitors of the day move through the teak interior with minimal wait. Coolest hours for a building with limited ventilation.
Quiet
10:00 – 13:00
Late Morning
School groups and domestic tourists build through late morning, concentrated in the ground-floor museum rooms.
Moderate
13:00 – 16:00
Afternoon Heat
Visitor numbers drop through the hottest part of the day; the building's teak construction retains heat with limited airflow.
Quiet
16:00 – 17:30
Late Afternoon
A second smaller wave of visitors arrives before closing, often combining the palace with a walk along the remaining fort wall.
Moderate

History of Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace

Hyder Ali's decision to build within Bangalore Fort in 1781 reflected the palace's original military function: a residence secure behind fortified walls in a garrison town, not a pleasure palace removed from defensive concerns. Tipu Sultan inherited the unfinished building on his father's death and completed it in 1791, continuing the teak-heavy Indo-Islamic style that distinguishes Mysore-era Sultanate architecture from both Vijayanagara stone temple-building and the later British colonial construction that would eventually surround the fort.

The palace's administrative role continued after Tipu's death at the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War in 1799: British authorities used the building as a secretariat office until 1868, when government administration relocated to the newly built Attara Kacheri beside Cubbon Park. That eighty-year afterlife as a functioning government office, rather than an abandoned royal relic, likely explains why the structure survived largely intact into the twentieth century, when it was placed under Archaeological Survey of India protection as a Monument of National Importance.

Rules & etiquette at Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace

Flash photography is prohibited throughout the interior to protect the painted murals and ceiling work; a still-camera ticket (around ₹25) is required for any photography, and staff enforce the no-flash rule actively given the fragility of the pigments. Visitors should not touch the painted walls or wooden pillars — centuries of oil from hands has already dulled sections of the original paintwork.

The palace sits inside the boundary of Bangalore Fort, itself a separate historical structure with its own remaining gate and walls; budget time to see both together rather than treating the palace as an isolated stop, since the fort entrance and Ganapathi temple within the fort walls are a short walk away.

Avoid confusing this Chamrajpet site with the similarly named palace at Srirangapatna near Mysore, roughly 130 km away — both are called Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace in casual reference, but they are distinct ASI monuments with separate ticketing, and drivers or guides sometimes assume the wrong one by default.

Tips for visiting Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace

1
Combine the visit with the remaining stretch of Bangalore Fort wall and the Delhi Gate nearby — both sit within a few minutes' walk and round out the picture of Tipu-era Bangalore that the palace alone doesn't fully convey.
2
The surrounding Chamrajpet and KR Market area is dense, low-rise, and best reached by auto rather than attempting to park nearby; traffic around the adjacent market streets is heavy through most of the day. Morning visits avoid both the crowds and the harsher midday heat inside a building with limited ventilation compared to open-air fort sites.
3
The ground-floor museum rewards a slow pass — the silver vessels and weapons on display are easy to miss if moving quickly through the building's compact room sequence, and there is no audio guide to prompt a more deliberate pace.

How to reach Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace

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Albert Victor Road, Chamrajpet, near Bangalore Fort, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560018Directions in Google Maps

From Kempegowda International Airport (BLR)
₹700–₹1,000
37 km · 60–90 min
Prepaid cab
From KSR Bengaluru City Junction
₹70–₹110
3 km · 10–15 min
Auto
From Kempegowda Bus Station (Majestic)
₹60–₹100
2.5 km · 10 min
Auto

Nearest airport

From Kempegowda International Airport (BLR)

approximately 37 km, 60–90 minutes by road.

Nearest railway station

From KSR Bengaluru City Junction

approximately 3 km, a 10–15 minute auto ride.

Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace FAQs

Is this the same palace as the one in Srirangapatna?

No. This Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace stands in Chamrajpet within Bangalore Fort and is a separate Archaeological Survey of India monument from the similarly named Daria Daulat Bagh palace in Srirangapatna near Mysore, roughly 130 km away. Confirm the address before booking transport.

What is the entry fee for Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace in Bengaluru?

₹25 for Indian nationals and ₹300 for foreign nationals at the counter as of 2026, with children under 15 free. A separate still-camera ticket costs around ₹25.

Is the Tipu's Tiger automaton on display here?

Only a replica. The original mechanical automaton, which depicts a tiger mauling a European soldier, is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

What is the palace built from?

The two-storey structure is built almost entirely of teakwood, with ornate carved pillars, cusped arches, and painted balconies — a construction technique distinct from the stone palaces more typical of South Indian royal architecture.

Compiled with AI assistance from official sources and public records, and published only after the checks in How we write these guides. Nobody from Traveliac has visited this place. Last updated 18 September 2026. How we rank and check places