Built in 1784, the 'Summer Palace' or 'Daria Doulat Bagh' stands as a testimony for Tipu's love for greenery and open space. The structure is in Indo-Islamic style of architecture, constructed mainly of Teak wood, stands on a raised platform of about 1.5 meters high.
A corridor runs along the four sides with tapering lotus-form wooden pillars with trefoil arches at the edges of the plinth. While the western and eastern wings have walls, the northern and southerrt wings have recessed pillars supporting the roof so that the upper storey forms an inner floor with two canopied balconies. There are two fairly large audience halls. The four stair cases concealed from view are built in the four partitions walls which divide the audience hall into four rooms at four corners, with a central hall connecting the eastern and western corridors. It is said that Tipu used to receive his ambassadors and guests in that hall.
The building appears to have been modelled after the place at Sira now extinct, built by the Moghul Governor Dilavar Khan. The same pattern is adopted for Tipu's palace at Bangalore. One striking feature of the building is that a large quantity of wood has been used in making up the ceilings and the space on the walls, pillars, canopies and arches. They are painted colourfully and artistically. The outer walls of the palace are confined to battle scenes and portrait paintings while the interior walls are decorated with scrolls of thin foliage, floral pattern in geometrical designs. The wooden ceilings are pasted with canvas, painted with floral designs. In the central hall of the ground floor, a protruding design framing the floral decoration is made by affixing clay moulds over which the decorated canves is pressed and painted
This palace has now been converted into a museum which exhibits Tipu's belongings and paintings.