The Palace is popularly known as Hazarduari Palace as it contains about thousand real and false doors. It was built by Nawab Nazim Humayun Jah (1829-37 AD). The palace was used for holding Durbar and as residence of high ranking English Officials. Now it has been converted into a period museum. It has presently twenty galleries displaying a vast array of interesting exhibits which include life size paintings of the Nawabs of Murshidabad, British royal personages, period furniture, landscape paintings, silver thrones, palanquins, arms and armour used in various battles of this region, vases, ivory and marble objects etc.
The Imambara lying opposite to the palace is a vast building with a Madina at the centre.