On the top floor of the Council, the Bagmati Gallery (still in its formative stage), houses the permanent collection of the Council and displays in rotation, the traditional arts, Paubhas, Thangkas and portraits, original works of contemporary Nepali artists as well as reproductions of contemporary art by master artists from around the world.
Artists in the permanent collection
- Balakrishna Sama
- Lainsingh Bangdel
- Jadish Samsher Rana
- Gyan Bahadur Chitrakar
- Keshav Lal Chitrakar
- Dil Bahdur Chitrakar
- Sidhimuni Shakya
- Chinikaji Tarmrkar
- Ava Devi
- Shankarnath Rimal
- Karna Maskey
- Tek Bir Mukhiya
- Banshi Shrestha
- Sashi Shaha
- Hiralal Dangol
- Hem Paudyal
- Sharada Chitrakar
- Vijaya Thapa
- Urmila Garga
- Lok Prasad Gurung
- Chhetra Lal Kayastha
- Basta Gopal Vaidya
- Shyam Lal Shrestha
- Madan Chitrakar
- Ratan Kumar Rai
- Krishna Manandhar
- Shankar Raj Singh Suwal
- K. K. Karmacharya
- Gautam Ratna Tuladhar
- Radheshyam Mulmi
- Hari Khadka
- Ramesh Khanal
- Shashikala Tiwari
- Mukesh Malla
- Puran Khadka
- Chanda Shrestha
- Kiran Manandhar
- Om Raj Prajapati
- Buddhi Gurung
- Naresh Sunder Saiju
- Nabindra Rajbhandary
- Jeevan Rajopadhyay
- Uttam Kharel
- Nagendra Paudyal
- Ratna Kaji Shakya
- Shanta Kumar Rai
- Surendra Pradhan
- Shushma Rajbhandary
- Gyanendra Bibas
- Erina Tamrakar
- Bhairaj Maharjan
- Asha Dangol
- Binod Pradhan
- Sarita Dangol
- Sagar Manandhar
- Pragya Upadhyaya
- Prof. Dr. Abdus Satter
- Mojibur Rahman
- Mostafizul Haque
- Smarjit Roy Choudhary
- Mohammad Eunush
