Kolkata’s museum trail

Synopsis

Kolkata is home to a multitude of museums—right from modern science museums to heritage to the country’s first wax museum, all these are worth visiting. Whether it is the Egyptian gallery at the Indian Museum or the huge collectio … Read more

Kolkata is home to a multitude of museums—right from modern science museums to heritage to the country’s first wax museum, all these are worth visiting. Whether it is the Egyptian gallery at the Indian Museum or the huge collection of paintings at the Jorasanko Thakurbari, Swami Vivekananda’s boxing gloves at his ancestral home or seals and beads from the Gupta period at the Asutosh Museum of Modern Art or the life-size statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the Mother’s Wax Museum—the museums of Kolkata will leave you coming back for more. Read less