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welcome to indian museum
it’s not a museum. it’s place of ideas
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100+ Arts in one place
Museum is the Place where you can see
wonder & Feel! -
founded in the year 1814
the largest and oldest museum in india
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Art Is Not What You See
Museum Is A Place Where One Should Lose One’s Head
- 27, Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Park Street, Kolkata - 700016. W.B.
- 10AM to 5PM
Tuesday to Sunday
Welcome To Indian Museum Kolkata
History Of The Museum
Founded in 1814 at the cradle of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (at the present building of the Asiatic Society, 1 Park Street, Kolkata), Indian Museum is the earliest and the largest multipurpose Museum not only in the Indian subcontinent but also in the Asia-Pacific region of the world.
With the foundation of Indian Museum in 1814, the Museum movement started rolling in India and through the yea...
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About Indian Museum
On View Of Museum
The Indian Museum is the largest and oldest museum in India and has rare collections of antiques, armour and ornaments, fossils, skeletons, mummies, and Mughal paintings.
Our Exhibitions
Upcoming events
We Are Open On 31st, 2018 Monday
10:00 AM
Welcome Visitors !! We are open on 31st, Dec 2018 [...]
Dec 31st, 2018
Kolkata
Sanskriti Kumbh 2019, Prayagraj
2:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Sanskriti Kumbh 2019, Prayagraj [...]
Jan 10, 2019
From The
Director's Desk
It gives me immense pleasure to become part of one of the largest and oldest encyclopaedic museums in Asia as the Director, the charge which I took up on 1st September 2017. From being "an institution for the reception of all articles that might be sent to illustrate Orient manners and history", the museum has today become a vast repository of an enormous collection of indigenous and international exhibits that is spread across its six sections - Art, Archaeology, Anthropology, Zoology, Geology, and Botany.
Mr. Rajesh Purohit ( Director, Indian Museum )
Mr. Rajesh Purohit ( Director, Indian Museum )
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