Museums in india, Museums in delhi, Museums and art galleries in india, Museums in jaipur, Museums in north india

India is a land with a history and culture that goes back over 5000 years. Innumerable historical sites, cities and monuments across the length and breadth of the country are a testimony to this rich cultural past, but in a museum they view five thousands years of concentrated culture on display under a single roof.

The British in the 19th century set up a number of institutions to explore and document the wealth of material available in the country. Among these were the Archaeologial Survey of India, Geological Survey of India and Botanical Survey of India. Simultaneously, they began country's heritage to view Indian art and culture as integral to the cuntry's heritage and deemed it necessary to house. Collections in suitable institutions. Thus in 1875 the first museum, the Indian Museum was established in Calcutta.


Ahmedabad		Bangalore
Calico Museum of Textiles ◘ Utensils Museums		Karnataka Government Museum ◘ Visveswarayya Industrial and Technological Museum

Bhopal		Bhubneswar
State Archaeological Museum ◘ Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya ◘ Birla Museum		Orissa State Museum

Calcutta (Kolkata)		Chennai (Madras)
Indian Museum ◘ Victoria Memorial Museum ◘ Birla Academy of Art and Cultural Museum ◘ Birla Industrial and Technological Museum ◘ Crafts Museum ◘ Rabindra Bharti Museum ◘ Ethnographic Museum ◘ Government Industrial and Commercial Museum ◘ Nehru Children's Museum ◘ Netaji Museum		Government State Museum

Cochin (Kochi)		Delhi
Hill Palace Museum ◘ Museum of Kerala History		National Museum ◘ Crafts Museum ◘ Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum ◘ International Doll Museum ◘ National Museum of Natural History ◘ National Science Centre Museum ◘ Rail Museums ◘ The National Gallery of Modern Art ◘ Nehru Museum ◘ Archaeological Museum

Goa		Gwalior
Goa State Museum		Archaeological Museum ◘ Scindia Museum

Hyderabad		Jaipur
State Museum ◘ Salarjung Museum		Central Museum (Albert Hall) ◘ Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum ◘ Hawa Mahal Museum

Jaisalmer		Jodhpur
Desert Culture Center & Museum ◘ Folklore Museum		Mehrangarh Fort Museum ◘ Umaid Bhawan Palace and Museum ◘ Goverment Museum

Khajuraho		Konark
Archaeological Museum		Archaeological Museum

Lucknow		Mumbai
State Museum		Prince of Wales Museum ◘ Bombay Natural History Society ◘ Nehru Science Center

Nalanda		Patna
Archaeological Museum		State Museum

Sanchi		Sarnath
Archaeological Museum		Archaeological Museum

Shimla		Udaipur
State Museum		City Palace Museum ◘ Government Museum ◘ Bharatiya Lok Kala Museum

Varanasi
Bharat Kala Bhavan