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Indian Museum, Calcutta
This museum was established in 1878 on Jawaharlal Nehru Road. The museum is built in Italian architectural
style and is considered as the largest museum in the country and one of the
best in Asia. The largest museum in the country, the museum has six sections:
Art, Archaeology, Anthropology, Geology, Zoology and Industry (economic botany).
From the Egyptian mummy to the skeleton of the whale and some rare statues;
the museum has every thing. One of the rooms has a collection of meteorites.
The museum also has a unique fossil collection of prehistoric animals which
includes a giant crocodile and a huge tortorise.The art collection has many
fine pieces from Orissa and other temples and superb example of Buddhist
Gandharan art.
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