Museum In India

India is a land with a history and culture that goes back over 5000 years. Innumerable historical sites, cities and monuments across the length and breadth of the country are a testimony to this rich cultural past, but in a museum they view five thousands years of concentrated culture on display under a single roof.

The British in the 19th century set up a number of institutions to explore and document the wealth of material available in the country. Among these were the Archaeologial Survey of India, Geological Survey of India and Botanical Survey of India. Simultaneously, they began country's heritage to view Indian art and culture as integral to the cuntry's heritage and deemed it necessary to house. Collections in suitable institutions. Thus in 1875 the first museum, the Indian Museum was established in Calcutta.

<<Musems & Art Galleries in India >>

Museums  in Ahmedabad

>>Calico Museum of Textiles   >>Utensils Museums  

Museums  in Bangalore

>> Karnataka Government Museum    >>Visveswarayya Industrial and Technological Museum

Museums  in Bhopal

>>State Archaeological Museum    >>Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya   >>Birla Museum 

Museums  in Bhubneswar

>>Orissa State Museum 

Museums  in Calcutta (Kolkata)

>>Indian Museum  >>Victoria Memorial Museum  >>Birla Academy of Art and Cultural Museum >>Birla Industrial and Technological Museum >>Crafts Museum  >>Rabindra Bharti Museum >>Ethnographic Museum  >>Government Industrial and Commercial Museum   >>Nehru Children's Museum  >>Netaji Museum

 Museums  in Chennai (Madras)

>>Government State Museum   

Museums  in Cochin (Kochi)

>>Hill Palace Museum   >>Museum of Kerala History  

Museums  in  Lucknow

>> State Museum 

Museums  in Nalanda 

>>Archaeological Museum   

Museums  in  Sanchi

>>Archaeological Museum

Museums  in  Sarnath

>>Archaeological Museum

Museums  in  Varanasi

>> Bharat Kala Bhavan