About Gallery – Indian Museum Kolkata

Museum Gallery

ABOUT OUR COLLECTIONS

ENTRANCE FOYER

The Entrance Foyer of the Indian Museum, Kolkata welcomes its visitors with majestic sculptures

BHARHUT GALLERY

The red sandstone remnants of the Bharhut Stupa were created all the way to their current location

BIRDS & FISH GALLERY

The focus of this gallery is on birds, including how they interact with their habitat and how they behave.

INDUSTRIAL BOTANY GALLERY

The Industrial Botanical Gallery in the Indian Museum exhibits the colonial accumulation and organization of “economic botany”

BRONZE GALLERY

Indian Museum, Kolkata possesses a sizeable number of metal images in its repository the dates of which range from 8th to 14th century CE

COIN GALLERY

Indian Museum has a unique assemblage of coins, numbering more than fifty thousand, from different regions of South Asia

DECORATIVE ART

The Decorative section displays a huge collection of ivory objects along with different schools of textiles.

EGYPT GALLERY

One of the major attractions of the Indian Museum is the Egyptian Mummy exhibited along with a mummified hand in the first-floor gallery

GANDHARA GALLERY

This gallery moves forward in time from C. 1^st Century BCE to C. 4^th century CE and depicts the Gandhara School

INSECT GALLERY

This gallery, which is a key draw for all entomophilous, is a treasure trove of knowledge

L. ARCHAEOLOGY GALLERY

The gallery is a panorama of Indian sculptural art that celebrates the evolution of sculptural art in South Asia.

MAMMAL GALLERY

A massive collection of bones and fossils of various animals found across South Asia can be found on display in this gallery

MASK GALLERY

The gallery exhibits various masks from West Bengal, Orissa, Assam, Karnataka, and also from Bhutan and New Guinea.

PAINTINGS GALLERY

The Painting Gallery has two main sections, viz., Indian Miniatures and the Bengal School of Paintings.

TEXTILE GALLERY

Although the majority of the textiles on the show are from the 19th century, this gallery contains textiles from all across India

MINOR ART GALLERY

This Minor Art Gallery exhibits terracotta artefacts including beads, baubles and trinkets

HUMAN EVOLUTION GALLERY

Discover what makes us human as you reconnect with your ancient relatives

ROCKS & MINERALS GALLERY

Visitors can see igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks from all around the globe

INVERTEBRATE FOSSIL GALLERY

The gallery exhibits a large collection of invertebrate fossil specimens

PRE & PROTO HISTORY GALLERY

The gallery is currently under renovation and closed to visitors.

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY GALLERY