Delhi National Museum

Delhi, New Delhi, Janpath, Rajpath Road Area, Central Secretariat

 Museums of India First of all, in Delhi is worth visiting the National Museum, which was opened in the middle of the last century, then there were about forty thousand exhibits, today the collection has increased several times. - $

International Puppet Museum. Sankara

Delhi, New Delhi, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, 4

 Museums of India Lovers of hand-made for sure will not leave indifferent the huge collection of dolls collected by Shankar Pillai, a famous journalist and master of cartoons from around the globe.

Gandhi Smirti Museum

Delhi, New Delhi, Tees January Marg, 5

 Museums of India

The Gandhi Smirti Museum was opened in 1973. He is in the house where the politician once lived, and where his life ended in 1948.

Indira Gandhi Museum

 Delhi, New Delhi, Safderjang Road, 1 Museums of India

The museum dedicated to the memory of Indira Gandhi, the entrance is free, collections of her pictures and personal belongings are collected here, among which the wedding attire and sari, in which she was killed by people from of its surrounding environment.

Crafts Museum in Delhi

 Delhi, Pragati Maidan, Bhairon Marg Museums of India

Also interesting collections are exhibited in the Museum reme villages where unique tools of labor of different eras are collected, there are pavilions in which you can plunge into the atmosphere that reigned in old mansions.

National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi

 Delhi, New Delhi, India Gate, Delhi High Court, Justice SB Marg Museums of India

With modern Indian art can be found in the National Gallery of Modern Art. Here are various works, the earliest of which are dated to the 30th years of the last century.

National Rail Transport Museum in Delhi

 Delhi, New Delhi, Moti Bagh North, Block E Museums of India

The National Railway Transport Museum is no less interesting. In the halls of this museum you can not only see photographs and models of trains from different eras, but also in the original see one of the first locomotives that was designed in the middle of the 18th century and is still on the run, as they say. 500 museums in India are ready to share their treasures with curious travelers.

In Mumbai tourists are attracted by the Taraporevala Aquarium and the Maritime Museum, here you will see unique underwater plants, rare fish and pearl products. The magnificent building of the Prince of Wales Museum takes visitors to the time when India was a British colony. The founding father of the museum, built in 1905 is the English King George Fifth.

The museum of Sarnath (Uttar Pradesh) stores archaeological relics of the ancient history of India. The most famous exhibit of the museum is the Ashoka Column, named after the Indian ruler. Ashok accepted Buddhism by visiting the holy city of Sarnath.
The stone lion from the top of the capital Ashok moved to the coat of arms of India and became the symbol of the country.

The main exhibits of the Chennai Museum in Madras are the artifacts of the stone and iron age found in the Buddhist temple and the display of bronze items. In addition, in the museum you will find an extensive collection of armor and weapons, sculptures and coins of different centuries, botanical, geological and zoological exhibits.

Tibet Museum Namgyal in Gangtok (Sikkim) demonstrates visitors to the largest collection of Tibetan art: tanks, statues , masks and altars. The museum contains a chronicle of more than 60 Sikkim monasteries, unique photo archives. The cornerstone that laid the foundations for the construction of the museum was laid by the Dalai Lama in 1957.

In the north of Trevandrum there is the Neapiar Museum, founded in 1855 and named after the then governor of Madras. In addition to works of art from bronze and ivory, ancient ornaments and archaeological finds, costumes of ritual dancers and a collection of miniatures, the museum exhibits paintings by Nicholas Roerich. - $

Museum of the State of Assam will acquaint you with a collection of archaeological finds of metal, terracotta, stone and wood . Invariant interest of tourists is the State Science Museum and the planetarium.

Calcutta boasts the largest collection of artifacts dedicated to archeology and the history of India. All of them are exhibited in the Indian Museum. The Queen Victoria Memorial, opened in 1921, collected sculptural images and portraits of prominent citizens of India.