Hazarduari Palace is the headline sight of the Murshidabad area. Built in the nineteenth century for Nawab Nazim Humayun Jah, it now works as a museum of paintings, arms, furniture, and court objects from the last great phase of Nawabi Bengal.
The building is formal, European, and deliberately imposing, which makes a sharp contrast with the mosques and older tombs nearby. Give it proper time; rushing through the palace makes the whole Berhampore visit feel thinner than it should.