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There is a well-maintained Museum managed by the Archaeological Survey of India, and is definitely a must-visit, as it has some of the excavated broken sculptures and pillars from the temples. We, unfortunately couldn’t visit the Museum, because of it’s weekly closure on Friday, and previously on Thursday, it was closed for the festival of Dusshera. One event that one must be wary of is the over-publicized dance of the Kandariyas, for which Hotels sell tickets at Rs 300 per head. We discovered that this is only a marketing gimmick, and is actually a folk-dance show put up by a local cultural body, and is not unique or associated in any way with the legend of Khajuraho. I mean, why somebody would want to watch a Bhangra performance by a local troupe in Madhya Pradesh! 
Khajuraho temples, constructed with spiral superstructures, adhere to northern Indian shikhara temple style and often to a Panchayatana plan or layout. A few of the temples are dedicated to the Jain pantheon and the rest to Hindu deities - to God's Trio, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, and various Devi forms. A Panchayatana temple had four subordinate shrines on four corners and the main shrine in the center of the podium, which comprises their base.The temples are grouped into three geographical divisions : western, eastern and southern With a graded rise secondary
shikharas (spires) cluster to create appropriate base for
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