This museum has a wide range of items on display from Tibetan and temple banners, metal images, ornaments, silver wares, glass wares pottery, ivory
and bone work to wooden sculptures.
Besides cultural artifacts, the museum also hosts eighty thousand specimens of meteorites, precious stone, ornamental building stones, rocks and mineral
and fossils.
Address: J.L Nehru Road, Kolkata 700 016.
Tel: 2495699
Timings: 10.00 a.m. to 5.00 a.m
Closed on Mondays and public holidays
Entry Fees: Indians - Rs. 10, Foreigners - Rs.150
Ashutosh Museum Of Art, Kolkata
Basalt sculptures from Pala and Sena periods are on display here, these sculptures have a distinctive blend of Hindu and Buddhists styles.
Address: Centenary Building, Kolkata University College Street, Kolkata - 700 073
Timings: 10.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m
Closed on weekends and public holidays
Victoria Memorial Museum, Kolkata
This museum houses collections from the British colonial period, including a life - sizes statue of young Queen Victoria.
Address: Cathedral Road, Kolkata - 700 071
Tel: 223 - 1890
Timings on Mondays and public holidays
Entry Fee: Indians - Rs 10, foreigners - Rs 150
Bangiya Sahita Parishad Chitrasala, Kolkata
The museum exhibits valuable medieval stone and metal sculptures, manuscripts, letters of famous Bengali authors and archeological objects depicting the
history and cultures of Bengal.
Birla Academy Of Art And Culture Museum, Kolkata
Painting of the medieval period as well as modern art on display. Regular exhibitions of modern art on display. Regular exhibitions of modern Indian sculptors
and painters are also held.
Rural arts and crafts of different regions of India including ivories, metal objects and textiles are on display.
Enthnographic Museum, Kolkata
Hunting tools, fishihg gear, dresses and ornaments, furniture, spinning and weaving aids as well as objects relating to art, religion and "magic" are prominent
features of the museum.
Nehru Children's Museum, Kolkata
The museum has on display puppets depicting the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, dolls wearing national costumes from different countries, miniatures working
models of railway crossings and an elementary science gallery.
Address: 94/1 J.L Nehru, Kolkata - 700 020
Tel - 2233517
Fax: 440 - 3890
Timings: Wednesday to Sunday 11.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. Tuesday 2.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m
Closed on Mondays.
Entry fee: Children - Rs 2 and Adults- Rs. 5
Rabindra Bharati Museum
This museum is the ancestral home of the famous writer and poet Rabindranath Tagore, the only Indian to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
Address: 6/4 D.N. Tagore Lane, Kolkata - 700 007
Tel: 2395241/ 42
Timings: 10.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m
Closed on Sundays and Monday
Entry : Indians - Rs 10, Foreigners - Rs.50
Birla Industrial And Technological Museum, Kolkata
This is India's first public science museum. It has a display of scientific models, hands - on interactive exhibits on scientific phenomenon and models
of various industries.
Address: 19A Gurusaday Road. Kolkata - 700 019
Tel: 247- 7241
Timings: 10.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m
Closed on Mondays and public holidays
Entry fee: Rs. 10
Asiatic Society Museum, Kolkata
The museum hosts rare, valuable and illustrated manuscript from all over India and South East Asia. The exhibits on scientific include the Bhabru Rock
Edict of Ashoka, copper plates belonging to 11th and 12th century A.D., and the collection of rare books.
Address: 1 Park Street, Kolkata - 700 016
Tel: 2290779/ 7251
Fax: 2260355
Timings: 10.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m
Closed on weekends and public holidays.
Entry: Free
Kolkata Panorama At Town Hall
The Town Hall, one of the most celebrated architectural edifices of Kalkota now boasts of India's first hi - tech museum. Called the Kolkata Panorama, the
state of the-art museum portrays and depicts stories of the Kolkata city from its inception through the Bengal Renaissances and the freedom struggle to the
present day.
Address: Town Hall, Kolkota
Tel: 2483085 / 248 6165
Timings at 11.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m
Closed on Monday and public holidays
Entry fee: Indians - Rs. 10 on weekdays, Rs. 15 on Saturday, Sundays and holidays. Foreigners - Rs. 100
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