Museums in West Bengal
Birla Planetarium
Established in 1962 by the Birla Education Trust. Only the second of its kind
in the Commonwealth, similar to that in London, it is one of the most popular
Museums where astronomical presentations relating to the Solar System, the Zodiac,
Space Probes, Galaxies and Life Span f Stars are made along with lectures, generally
in English, Bengali, Hindi and occasionally in Gujarati, Tamil and Oriya.
Offers specially designed graded programmes for children of different age-groups.
Astronomy Gallery of the Planetarium includes telescopic photographs of celestial
bodies, busts of eminent astronomers; murals depicting the Navagraha and a model
of the Jodrell Bank Steerable Radio Telescope. Also offers short courses in
astronomy and sky observation.
Birla PLanetarium
9-12, Old Court House Street,
Calcutta - 700 001.
Asiatic Society, Calcutta
|| Academy of Fine
Arts || Asutosh
Museum of Indian Art || Birla
Industrial & Technological Museum ||
Birla Planetarium
|| Ethnographic
Museum || Indian
Museum || Nehru
Children’s Museum || Rabindra-Bharati
Museum || State
Archaeological Gallery || Victoria
Memorial || Zoological
Garden || Carey
Museum || Gandhi
Smarak Sangrahalaya
