Indian Museum
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Location: Calcutta
Established in: 1878
Architecture : Italian Architecturte
Main Attraction : Its Unique collections 

This museum was established in 1878. The museum is built in Italian
architectural style and is considered as the largest museum in the country and
one of the best in Asia. This museum has different sections and the artifacts
displayed here are amazing. Form the Egyptian mummy to the Skeleton of the
whale and some rare statutes; the museum has every thing. One of the rooms has
a collection of meteorites. The museum also has a unique fossil collection of
prehistoric animals which includes a giant crocodile and a huge tortorise. The
art collection has many fine pieces from Orissan and other temples and superb
example of Buddhist Gandharan art.

 




