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West Bengal Monuments
Asiatic Society
Established in 1784. Collections include valuable portraits and sculptures including original paintings by Rubens, Guido, Reynolds, Home and others; the Library (General Section) has over 100000 volumes while the Sanskrit
Academy of Fine Arts
Established in 1933. Collections include contemporary Indian Art including specimens of art of medieval Bengal and Indian textiles, Kashmir shawls, medieval Indian miniature paintings, 19th century prints and some stone sculptures.
Asutosh Museum of Indian Art
Established in 1937. Named after the great educationist, Asutosh Mookerjee, set up for the purpose of collecting, preserving and exhibiting objects of Indian art and antiquity with special emphasis on Eastern India and more especially Bengal.
Birla Industrial & Technological Museum
Established in 1956 by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research; deals with basic science and technology; has large number of exhibits, designed, prepared and fabricated at its own workshop.
Nehru Children's Museum
Established in 1972. Collections include puppets depicting the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, dolls wearing national costumes from different countries, miniature working models of railway crossings and other novelties and an elementary science gallery.
Victoria Memorial
Established in 1903 by an Act of the then Governor-General-in-Council. Collections include items relating to Indian history from the 17th to the 20th century such as relics, documents, personal effects.
Zoological Garden
Established in 1875, one of the largest in the country; well stocked with many varieties of popular important and exotic fauna collected from India and overseas. Special enclosures for tigers and bears in natural habitat, a rich reptile house
Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya
Established in 1961. Has a large collection of photographs portraying Gandhiji's life, particularly his peache mission to Noakhali; also Photostat of letters to Gandhiji from different countries, letters written by him, a large number of press cuttings
West Bengal Travel Forum
