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The Indian Museum (formerly called Imperial Museum of Calcutta before independence, [1] [2]) is a massive museum in Central Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is the ninth oldest museum in the world and the oldest and largest museum in Asia, by size of collection .
[105] [106] The Indian Medical Association and members of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party accused the West Bengal government, under the leadership of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, and state police of being directly accountable for the incident, asserting that the vandalism on the night of 14 August was perpetrated by "TMC goons" in ...
In August 2016, as part of an international conference commemorating 70 years of Partition at the Indian Museum in Kolkata, funded by The New Zealand India Research Institute (NZIRI) and The Ministry of Culture, Government of India, which was co-convened by Roy alongside historian Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Dr Jayanta Sengupta, this project was ...
As part of this research, early visions of using crowdsourcing method for metadata enrichment of museum artefacts and unified virtual catalogue for Indian museums was presented in 2005. [12] During 2013, Ministry of Culture started the Vivekananda Memorial Museum Excellence Program in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago, USA.
The National Museum in New Delhi, also known as the National Museum of India, is one of the largest museums in India. Established in 1949, it holds a variety of articles ranging from the pre-historic era to modern works of art. It functions under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The museum is situated on Janpath. [1]
Indian Museum, Kolkata, established in 1814, is the oldest and the largest [2] museum in Asia. It has a collection of 22,00,000 plus artifacts. [ 3 ] Victoria Memorial in Kolkata , established in 1921.
Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya (1 February 1919 – 11 June 2016) was an Indian archaeologist, museologist, art historian and professor of Sanskrit. He was the Director of the Indian Museum, Kolkata for a decade till his retirement. [3] [4] The Indian government awarded him Padma Shri in April 2017 posthumously.
Government House was built in 1803, the 48-metre (157 ft) high Octerlony Monument in 1828, [16] the museum was started in the Asiatic Society in 1814 but shifted to the present site as the Indian Museum in 1887, [17] St. Paul's Cathedral was built between 1839 and 1847, it was consecrated in 1874, [18] and the Victoria Memorial was erected in ...