Indian Museum Kolkata

The Indian Museum formerly called Imperial Museum of Calcutta is the ninth oldest museum in the world and the oldest and largest museum in India and Asia, by size of collection. It has rare collections of antiques, armour and ornaments, fossils, skeletons, mummies and Mughal paintings. It was founded by the Asiatic Society of Bengal in Kolkata 1814. The founder curator was Nathaniel Wallich, a Danish botanist.

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