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Specialty Museum Attractions In Kolkata (Calcutta)

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Kolkata is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River approximately 75 kilometres west of the border with Bangladesh, it is the principal commercial, cultural, and educational centre of East India, while the Port of Kolkata is India's oldest operating port and its sole major riverine port. The city is widely regarded as the cultural capital of India, and is also nicknamed the City of Joy. In 2011, the city had a population of 4.5 million, while the population of the city and its suburbs was 14.1 million, making it the third-most populous metropolitan area in India. Recent estimates of Kolkata Metropoli...
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Specialty Museum Attractions In Kolkata (Calcutta)

  • 1. Victoria Memorial Hall Kolkata Calcutta
    The Victoria Memorial is a large marble building in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, which was built between 1906 and 1921. It is dedicated to the memory of Queen Victoria and is now a museum and tourist destination under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture. The memorial lies on the Maidan by the bank of the Hooghly River, near Jawaharlal Nehru Road .
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  • 2. Birla Industrial & Technological Museum Kolkata Calcutta
    Birla Industrial & Technological Museum , a unit under National Council of Science Museums , Ministry of Culture, Government of India, is at Gurusaday Road, Kolkata.
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  • 3. Marble Palace Kolkata Kolkata Calcutta
    Marble Palace is a palatial nineteenth-century mansion in North Kolkata. It is located at 46, Muktaram Babu Street, Kolkata 700007. It is one of the best-preserved and most elegant houses of nineteenth-century Calcutta. The mansion is famous for its marble walls, floors, and sculptures, from which it derives its name.
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  • 5. Tagore House Kolkata Calcutta
    The Tagore Family , with over three hundred years of history, has been one of the leading families of Calcutta, India, and is regarded as a key influence during the Bengal Renaissance. The family has produced several persons who have contributed substantially in the fields of business, social and religious reformation, literature, art and music.
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  • 6. Netaji Bhawan Kolkata Calcutta
    Netaji Bhawan or Netaji Bhavan is a building maintained as a memorial and research center to the life of the Indian nationalist Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in Kolkata. The house, built by Bose's father in 1909, is owned and managed by the Netaji Research Bureau and includes a museum, archives and library. The Bureau is run by Sugata Bose and his mother. The building is on Lala Lajpat Rai Sarani in Kolkata. Bose escaped from house arrest at Netaji Bhawan in 1941 and fled to Berlin. After that, he traveled to Japan-occupied Southeast Asia by submarine , organized Indian National Army, and fought against British Raj with the Imperial Japanese Army. Relics of Bose's footprints are exhibited in the museum. After the Second World War, Mohandas K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru visited Netaji Bhawan....
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  • 8. Asiatic Society Kolkata Calcutta
    The Asiatic Society was founded by civil servant Sir William Jones on 15 January 1784 in a meeting presided over by Sir William Jones, Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William at the Fort William in Calcutta, then capital of the British Raj, to enhance and further the cause of Oriental research. At the time of its foundation, this Society was named as Asiatick Society. In 1825, the society dropped the antique k without any formal resolution and the Society was renamed as The Asiatic Society. In 1832 the name was changed to The Asiatic Society of Bengal and again in 1936 it was renamed as The Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. Finally, on 1 July 1951 the name of the society was changed to its present one. The Society is housed in a building at Park Street in Kolkata . The So...
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  • 9. Raja Rammohun Roy Memorial Museum Kolkata Calcutta
    Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a founder of the Brahma Sabha, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a socio-religious reform movement in the Indian subcontinent. His influence was apparent in the fields of politics, public administration, education, and religion. He was known for his efforts to abolish the practices of sati and child marriage. Raja Ram Mohan Roy is considered by many historians as the Father of the Indian Renaissance.In 2004, Roy was placed tenth in a BBC public poll to determine the Greatest Bengali of all time.
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  • 10. Sabarna Sangrahashala Kolkata Calcutta
    The Sabarna Ray Chaudhury family were the Zamindars of the Kolkata area, prior to the arrival of the British. On 10 November 1698, they transferred, by lease, their rights over the three villages – Sutanuti, Gobindapur and Kalikata - to the East India Company.Present descendants are scattered throughout West Bengal-mainly Halisahar, Barisha, Uttarpara, Nimta - Birati and Kheput and even in parts of Bangladesh.
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  • 12. Jute Museum Kolkata Calcutta
    Department of Jute and Fibre Technology, Institute of Jute Technology, University of Calcutta. :- University of Calcutta along with IJMA took a joint effort through the Syndicate of Calcutta University to establish an Institution on Education, Training and Research on Jute and Allied Fibre Technology , on a piece of land of Calcutta University taking an initial endowment from IJMA and constituting a Governing Council as Per University Syndicate resolution to govern this Institute as “Institute of Jute Technology” , while the foundation stone of this erstwhile Institute of Jute Technology was laid by Mr. I.J. Kennedy, C.B.E., Chairman, IJMA on 20 February 1947 and this Institute was inaugurated by Dr. B. C. Roy, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Govt. of West Bengal, on 10 March 1951 to start t...
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  • 13. Modern Museum Kolkata Calcutta
    Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a founder of the Brahma Sabha, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a socio-religious reform movement in the Indian subcontinent. His influence was apparent in the fields of politics, public administration, education, and religion. He was known for his efforts to abolish the practices of sati and child marriage. Raja Ram Mohan Roy is considered by many historians as the Father of the Indian Renaissance.In 2004, Roy was placed tenth in a BBC public poll to determine the Greatest Bengali of all time.
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  • 15. Art Museum Kolkata Calcutta
    Asutosh Museum of Indian Art is an art museum located in the main campus of University of Calcutta on College Street, Kolkata , India. Established in 1937, it is the first public museum in any University in India. The university museum is named after Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee who was the Vice-Chancellor of the university for four consecutive two-year terms and a fifth two-year term . The objective of the museum was to collect and preserve specimens of various phases of Indian art with special emphasis on the art of Bengal.
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