Kolkata: Indian museum
The Indian Museum
is the largest and oldest museum in India.
It has rare collections of antiques, armor, ornaments, fossils, skeletons, mummies, and Mughal paintings. It was founded by the Asiatic Society of Bengal in Kolkata, in 1814. The founder curator was Nathaniel Wallich, a Danish botanist.
It has six sections comprising thirty-five galleries of cultural and scientific artifacts namely Art, Archaeology, Anthropology, Geology, Zoology, and Economic Botany. At present, it includes six cultural and scientific sections, viz. Art, Archaeology, Anthropology, geology, zoology, and economic botany, with several galleries under each section.
It is one of the oldest museums in the world. This is an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The present Director of the Indian Museum is B. Venugopal. The museum was closed to visitors due to massive restoration and upgrades from 1 September 2013 to 3 February 2014.
Some sections are still closed because of renovation so only half of them are available. But still, the most important ones are open.
