Kolkata Attractions
Attractions in (or reasonably accessible from) Kolkata:
Indian Museum |
Attraction Type: Museum |
The Indian Museum is the largest museum in India and has a varied range of rare collections of antiques, armour and ornaments, fossils, skeletons, mummies, and Mughal paintings. It was founded by Dr Nathaniel Wallich a Danish botanist at Serampore (originally called Frederischnagore) near Kolkata (Calcutta), India, in 1814.
It has six sections comprising of thirty five galleries of cultural and scientific artifacts namely Art, Archaeology, Anthropology, Geology, Zoology and Economic Botany. It is one of oldest museums in the world.
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