| The walls of Daria Daulat Bagh contain some beautiful historic paintings. Hyder Ali commenced the construction of this place and it was completed by his son Tipu Sultan. The name indicates that it was built form the wealth acquired through sea trade. The palace is built in the Indo-Sarcenic style and is made of teakwood. It has a rectangular plan and is built on a raised platform. There are open corridors along the four sides of the platform with wooden pillars at the edges of the Plinth. The western and eastern wings have walls while the other two wings have recessed bays with pillars supporting the roof. The four staircases are inconspicuous, built in the four partition walls that divide the audience hall into four rooms at four corners with a central hall connecting the eastern and western corridors. The most stunning feature of the palace is that all the space available on the walls, pillars, canopies and arches have colourful frescoes. The outer walls of the palace have frescoes of the battle scenes and portraits. The inner walls are decorated with scrolls of thin foliage and floral patterns. The wooden ceilings of the palace are pasted with canvas painted with floral patterns.
The western wall has large battle scenes representing Colonel Bailey's defeat at Kancheevaram in 1780 A.D. Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan are shown in the midst of their troops with the Nizam's army arriving too late to help the British. On the top floor of the Daria Daulat Palace is the Tipu Sultan Museum. It has a collection of Tipu memorabilia, European paintings and Persian manuscripts. The museum has the famous painting "Storming of Srirangapattanam" an oil painting by Sir Robert Ker Porter made in 1800. This historical painting depicts the final fall of Srirangapatana on 4th May 1799. Outside the fort is the Gumbaz that contains Tipu's tomb, his father Hyder Ali's tomb and his mother's tomb. | 
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