 It housed the Tripura Legislative Assembly until July 2011 when the assembly moved to a new location north of Agartala.The museum was given seismic retrofitting to prevent possible earthquake damage, and the museum was inaugurated by the Vice-President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari on 25 September 2013.Early in the museum's history, controversy erupted over the state government's proposed move to change the name of Ujjayanta Palace to Tripura State Museum.