Eternal India Encyclopedia

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A GREAT DESTINATION

Code

Name

Address

City

Phone

Timings

Collection

MAG-60

Calcutta

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State Archaeolo- gical Museum

1, Satyendra Nath Roy Road Behala. Calcutta - 700 034

1200-1600 hrs. Closed on Sundays and Govt, holidays. Entry Fee: Re.l/-

Pre-historic, stone artefacts, pottery, antiquities, metal, ivory coins, manuscripts. Guide service, lectures. Photography allowed with permission.

MAG-61

Calcutta

347182/ 341133

State Archives of West Bengal

6, Bhowani Dutt Lane Calcutta -700 034

1030-1730 hrs. Closed on Sundays and Govt, holidays. Entry Free.

East India Company's administrative records from 1770-1858. Persian, Bengali, Dutch, Danish records. Photography not allowed. Drawings, busts, statues, manuscripts, documents, stamps, coins. Guide service, lectures, library. Photography on certain conditions permitted. Gandhara and Brahminical sculpture, paintings, prehistoric relics. Library, guide service, lectures, film shows on Saturdays and Sundays. Photography allowedwith prior permission.

MAG-62

Calcutta

445154

1000-1700 hrs. Closed on Mondays and gazetted holidays. Entry Fee: Re. 1/- 1000-1630 hrs. Closed on Mondays and gazetted holidays. Entry Fee: Re.l/- Summer: 1400-1700 hrs. Winter: 1000-1300 hrs. Closed on Mondays. Entry Free. Summer:0730-1330 hrs. Winter: 0900-1700 hrs. Closed on Sundays & gazetted holidays. Entry Free.

Victoria Memorial Hall

1, Queen's Way, Calcutta - 700 071

MAG-63

Chandigarh

25568

Government Museum and Art Gallery *

Sector 10C Chandiearh -160 010

MAG-64

Chandigarh

22779

Museum of Fine Arts

Punjab University Chandiearh - 160 014

Contemporary paintings, sculpture and graphic art. Lectures, film shows. Photography with permission.

MAG-65 Zoology Museum

Chandigarh

22942

Dept, of Zoology, Punjab University, Chandigarh Chandigarh -160 014

Items representing different groups of invertebrates and vertebrates. Guide seryice. Photography not allowed.

MAG-66 Archaeological Museum

Cochin

1000-1700 hrs. Closed on Fridays. Entry Free.

Ornaments, dress, weapons, paintingss. paintings. Library, film show. Photography allowed with permission.

Mattancherry Palace Cochin - 682 002

MAG-67

Darjeeling

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Akshaya Kumar Maitreya Museum

North Bengal University, Darjeeling Dist.

University Timings & closed on university holidays. Entry Free.

Stone, bronze, wooden sculpture, coins, manuscripts, paintings, miniatures. Photography with permission

MAG-68 Himalayan

Darjeeling

0900-1700 hrs. Closed on Tuesdays (only in winter) Entry Fee: Re. 1/- Garden: Sunrise to sunset. Herbarium: 1000-1600 hrs. Closed on Sundays & holidays. Entry Free.

Jawahar Parbat Darieeling - 734 101

2438/ 2378/ 2778

Expedition photographs, rocks, fauna, monograms. Library, film shows, lectures. Photography allowed.

Mountaineering Institute

MAG-69

Darjeeling - 734 101

Darjeeling

2358

Lloyd Botanical Garden

Herbarium: preserves rare botanical specimens. Library. Photography allowed.

MAG-70

Darjeeline

Darjeeling

2430

Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park

0800-1700 hrs. Entry Fee: Re.l/-.

Animals and birds of high altitude. Lectures. Photography allowed.

MAG-71

New Delhi

393461 Extn:463

Air Force Museum

Air Force Station, Palam New Delhi -110 010

Summer:0845-1345 hrs. Winter:0915-1415 hrs. Closed on Tuesdays & gazetted holidays. Entry Free.

Aircrafts, photographs, paintings, arms and ammunition, aero- engines, space models and portraits. Guide service, film shows. Photography allowed.

MAG-72 Anthropology

Dept, of Anthropology,

Delhi

2515329

0830-1730 hrs. Closed

Physical and cultural anthropolo-