Indian Museum

What Indian Museum makes

Topics museum, education, culture, heritage, history

::: Indian Museum ::: Though in the beginning Indian Museum was opened with two galleries later on it was transformed into a multipurpose Institution where multi-disciplinary objects have been displayed in its six sections, viz. Art, Archaeology, Anthropology, Zoology, Geology, and Botany. The museum which was known in the beginning as the “Asiatic Society Museum” subsequently came to be known as the “Imperial Museum” later familiarized as the “Indian Museum”. The museum is more familiar by the name Jadughar or Ajabghar among the visitors. The Museum has its own Medical unit to provide preliminary medical services to all the staffs of the organisation. The administrative control of the cultural sections, viz. Art, Archaeology, and Anthropology along with the other co-ordinating units/sections rests with the Board of Trustees under the Directorate Office of Indian Museum. This is an institution which is under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.

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