Apart from the resources of the National Museum such as artefacts in the galleries and reserve collection, library, laboratory etc., which are available to the students, the Institute has its own teaching and research facilities. The Institute’s library contains approximately 6000 books on Art History, Museology and Conservation. The library also contains about 67,000 slides covering a wide range of subjects from painting, sculpture, architecture to illuminated manuscripts prints and decorative arts from India South East Asia, Asia Pacific, Central Asia, Egypt and Mesopotamia and Europe. The library is fully automated with New Generation Library Management Software. For the benefit of its users the library has facilities like computer cluster connected to a Local Area Network that gives access to JSTORE online journal repository, the library software and also internet facilities through National Knowledge Network – a state-of-the-art multi-gigabit pan-India network for providing a unified high speed network backbone for all knowledge related institutions in the country. It also provides facilities like photocopying, scanning and printing in black and white and colour at nominal charges. A conservation science laboratory is being developed at the Institute to foster scientific research in art and cultural heritage conservation.