Exhibition themes may be listed as follows:

• Artefacts from the Danish period

• Trade goods exported (and imported) during the time of Danish trade

• Tranquebar coins displayed systematically

• Maps and artefacts highlighting other traders and colonisers who came to the Coromandel Coast

• Religions

• Tamil material culture

• The Indian history of Tranquebar (Chola, Pandiya etc.)

And natural history:

The name Tranquebar has often been used by biologists as a species name, by reason of missionaries often sending specimens back to European universities and research institutions. Some species were named by the well known Danish entomologist Johann Christian Fabricius (1745-1808), a pupil of Linnaeus.

Birds

Other species include:

Fish

Sparus tranquebaricus (a snapper)

Shelled marine Molluscs

• Bullia tranquebarica
• Calliostoma tranquebaricus
• Cantarus tranquebarica (Tranquebar goblet – displayed at the Pondicherry Museum)
• Clamys tranquebaricus
• Natica tranquebarica (syn. Eunaticina papilla)
• Murex tranquebaricus (syn. Bursa rana)
• Pecten tranquebaricus
• Perna tranquebaris
• Pollia tranquebaris
• Volaclamys tranquebarica
• Xylocopa tranquebarica