English: Wooden steps to on first floor, towards King Thibaw Gallery.

.......... Thibaw, King of Burma, now called as Myanmar, was a unique personality. He achieved Padhamarakyaw - a highest degree in Pali language. He was the only king in entire Myanmar history to achieve this degree. He had great respect and love for Buddhist religion and monks. British defeated Thibaw and captured him on 28 Nov. 1885. Apprehensive of a possible revolt from loyal follwers of Thibaw, th british took him along with his family first to Madras and then to Ratnagiri (the then british ruled India). First he was provided an accomodation in rental bunglow. But as the space was inadequate, the site for palace was selected be Thibaw's coice, south of Kolhapur road.

British government sanctioned Rs. One lakh 25 thousand for the construction of the Palace. During the same period Thibaw also constructed a Buddha Temple in Ratnagiri. The construction work of the palace began in 1906. Thibaw took great interest in planning and executing the construction. Thibaw visited the site almost daily, to supervise the work, to which the British did not object. Thus, planning and construction of this palace took entirely according to Thibaw's ideas and under his own supervision.

Hence, on this palace built in laterite stone in lime morter and teakwood, an influence of Burmese architecture is seen to large extent. Thibaw inhabited this palace in 1910. His wife Su Paya Gale and Thibaw himself took their last breath in the same palace respectively on 25 January 1912 and 16 December 1916. Their tombs are situated at Shivajinagar in Ratnagiri. Thibaw Palace is now a State Protected Monument of Maharashtra.

(Source of this information is the information mentioned in the Thibaw Palace.)