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Photos: 10 new museums to visit in India

Published on Aug 19, 2022 07:54 PM IST

Fossils, smugglers, coin machines, rare gems, revolutionaries and so much more to see as a slew of museums open across the country, reports Tanisha Saxena.

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A view inside Joint Replacement Museum in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The non-profit Indian Society of Hip and Knee Surgeons opened India’s first arthroplasty museum this year. Some 200 exhibits, dating from the 1970s onward, chart how the field has evolved. Drop in to learn about complicated case studies and best practices.  (Picture courtesy: Joint Replacement Museum)

Published on Aug 19, 2022 07:54 PM IST

A view inside Joint Replacement Museum in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The non-profit Indian Society of Hip and Knee Surgeons opened India’s first arthroplasty museum this year. Some 200 exhibits, dating from the 1970s onward, chart how the field has evolved. Drop in to learn about complicated case studies and best practices. (Picture courtesy: Joint Replacement Museum)

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A view of Mandro Fossil Park at Rajmahal Hills in Jharkhand. Here, stones play out Earth's history. The 95-acre forested zone has fossils that are 145 to 200 million years old. The central attraction: a 140-million-year-old plant fossil, preserved in a giant boulder, that might be the key to understanding how early plants evolved into the ones we know today. (Picture courtesy: Mandro Fossil Park)

Published on Aug 19, 2022 07:54 PM IST

A view of Mandro Fossil Park at Rajmahal Hills in Jharkhand. Here, stones play out Earth's history. The 95-acre forested zone has fossils that are 145 to 200 million years old. The central attraction: a 140-million-year-old plant fossil, preserved in a giant boulder, that might be the key to understanding how early plants evolved into the ones we know today. (Picture courtesy: Mandro Fossil Park)

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Dharohar GST Museum in Panaji, Goa. India’s only museum dedicated to custom duties, trade taxation and GST has a Battle of Wits gallery which chronicles how gold, guns, drugs, antiquities and wildlife were seized from smugglers over the decades. A new gallery charts the two-decade journey of GST. On display: The actual buzzer used in Parliament when the GST bill was turned into law.  (Picture courtesy: Dharohar GST Museum)

Published on Aug 19, 2022 07:54 PM IST

Dharohar GST Museum in Panaji, Goa. India’s only museum dedicated to custom duties, trade taxation and GST has a Battle of Wits gallery which chronicles how gold, guns, drugs, antiquities and wildlife were seized from smugglers over the decades. A new gallery charts the two-decade journey of GST. On display: The actual buzzer used in Parliament when the GST bill was turned into law. (Picture courtesy: Dharohar GST Museum)

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A visitor at the Museum of Possibilities in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Dedicated to the differently and specially abled, this museum has a café with counters at varying heights and suction-cup crockery for those who need it. The toilets are wheelchair-enabled. The Live, Work, Play sections feature musical instruments, boardgames, literature and software adapted for the differently abled. Check out the tactile surfaces for the visually challenged, beds and shelves at wheelchair-enabled levels, remote-controlled and voice-activated devices, sliding doors for greater ease.  (Picture courtesy: Museum of Possibilities)

Published on Aug 19, 2022 07:54 PM IST

A visitor at the Museum of Possibilities in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Dedicated to the differently and specially abled, this museum has a café with counters at varying heights and suction-cup crockery for those who need it. The toilets are wheelchair-enabled. The Live, Work, Play sections feature musical instruments, boardgames, literature and software adapted for the differently abled. Check out the tactile surfaces for the visually challenged, beds and shelves at wheelchair-enabled levels, remote-controlled and voice-activated devices, sliding doors for greater ease. (Picture courtesy: Museum of Possibilities)

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A view inside Museo Camera in Gurugram, Haryana. Check out their collection of more than 2,500 cameras and photographic equipment from the 1850s onward. Also displayed are rare pictures from Partition and an ongoing group show in which contemporary photographers mark 75 years of India's independence. If you love photography, this is a peek into what happens behind the scenes. (Sanjeev Verma / HT Photo)

Published on Aug 19, 2022 07:54 PM IST

A view inside Museo Camera in Gurugram, Haryana. Check out their collection of more than 2,500 cameras and photographic equipment from the 1850s onward. Also displayed are rare pictures from Partition and an ongoing group show in which contemporary photographers mark 75 years of India's independence. If you love photography, this is a peek into what happens behind the scenes. (Sanjeev Verma / HT Photo)

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The Balasinor Dinosaur Park, Phase 2, in Raiyoli, Gujarat. Raiyoli is the third-largest dinosaur fossil site in the world, and the second largest dinosaur hatchery on record, after 10,000 fossilised dinosaur eggs were found here over the decades. The museum has 40 life-size dinosaur models, including a replica of a fierce regional species named Rajasaurus Narmadensis. There’s now a 5D theatre too, a virtual forest experience that recreates dinosaur habitats, sample labs and holographic displays.  (Picture courtesy: Balasinor Dinosaur Park)

Published on Aug 19, 2022 07:54 PM IST

The Balasinor Dinosaur Park, Phase 2, in Raiyoli, Gujarat. Raiyoli is the third-largest dinosaur fossil site in the world, and the second largest dinosaur hatchery on record, after 10,000 fossilised dinosaur eggs were found here over the decades. The museum has 40 life-size dinosaur models, including a replica of a fierce regional species named Rajasaurus Narmadensis. There’s now a 5D theatre too, a virtual forest experience that recreates dinosaur habitats, sample labs and holographic displays. (Picture courtesy: Balasinor Dinosaur Park)

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A view inside Khazana Mahal in Jaipur, Rajasthan. This jewellery museum, draws from the personal collection of Dr Rajnikant Shah. It’s sprawling, set inside a century-old restored haveli. Obviously, there’s bling: Oversized rings; bits of gleaming meteorite; a shark tooth polished to a gleam; stones said to be from the Ram Setu from the Ramayana; and rare dinosaur coprolite (fossilised excreta).(Picture courtesy: Khazana Mahal)

Published on Aug 19, 2022 07:54 PM IST

A view inside Khazana Mahal in Jaipur, Rajasthan. This jewellery museum, draws from the personal collection of Dr Rajnikant Shah. It’s sprawling, set inside a century-old restored haveli. Obviously, there’s bling: Oversized rings; bits of gleaming meteorite; a shark tooth polished to a gleam; stones said to be from the Ram Setu from the Ramayana; and rare dinosaur coprolite (fossilised excreta).(Picture courtesy: Khazana Mahal)

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A view of the Independence Museum in Alipore, West Bengal. The 15.2-acre facility just outside Kolkata opened in 1906 as Alipore Jail. This is where Jawaharlal Nehru was imprisoned for 85 days in 1934. More than 50 others were hanged here. Areas where British-era inmates once spun khadi on charkhas have been preserved, as have the torture chambers and watchtowers. Ten artists from the state have painted freedom-movement-themed murals on some of the structures.  (Samir Jana / HT Photo)

Published on Aug 19, 2022 07:54 PM IST

A view of the Independence Museum in Alipore, West Bengal. The 15.2-acre facility just outside Kolkata opened in 1906 as Alipore Jail. This is where Jawaharlal Nehru was imprisoned for 85 days in 1934. More than 50 others were hanged here. Areas where British-era inmates once spun khadi on charkhas have been preserved, as have the torture chambers and watchtowers. Ten artists from the state have painted freedom-movement-themed murals on some of the structures. (Samir Jana / HT Photo)

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The Gallery of Revolutionaries in Mumbai, Maharashtra. In 2016, a series of dark, dank tunnels was discovered beneath the Governor’s sprawling residence at Malabar Hill. They are form Kranti Gatha, a gallery dedicated to heroes who fought in revolts from 1857 to the Royal Indian Navy uprising of 1946. It’s a tribute to Vasudev Balwant Phadke, Lokmanya Tilak, VD Savarkar, Krantiguru Lahuji Salve, Anant Laxman Kanhere, Bhikaiji Cama, and Ganesh Pingale, among others.  (Anshuman Poyrekar / HT Photo)

Published on Aug 19, 2022 07:54 PM IST

The Gallery of Revolutionaries in Mumbai, Maharashtra. In 2016, a series of dark, dank tunnels was discovered beneath the Governor’s sprawling residence at Malabar Hill. They are form Kranti Gatha, a gallery dedicated to heroes who fought in revolts from 1857 to the Royal Indian Navy uprising of 1946. It’s a tribute to Vasudev Balwant Phadke, Lokmanya Tilak, VD Savarkar, Krantiguru Lahuji Salve, Anant Laxman Kanhere, Bhikaiji Cama, and Ganesh Pingale, among others. (Anshuman Poyrekar / HT Photo)

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A view of the Saifabad Mint in Hyderabad, Telangana. Set in a decommissioned royal mint built in 1903, it showcases the making of the money itself. There are coins on display, from Mughal, Nizam, British-Indian and contemporary Indian periods. There’s even a replica of an 11.9-kg commemorative coin issued by Jahangir in 1613. But the real treasure is the old coin-making tools, which cut, shaped, stamped, engraved, edged and polished regular metal into something of greater value. (Picture courtesy: Saifabad Mint)

Published on Aug 19, 2022 07:54 PM IST

A view of the Saifabad Mint in Hyderabad, Telangana. Set in a decommissioned royal mint built in 1903, it showcases the making of the money itself. There are coins on display, from Mughal, Nizam, British-Indian and contemporary Indian periods. There’s even a replica of an 11.9-kg commemorative coin issued by Jahangir in 1613. But the real treasure is the old coin-making tools, which cut, shaped, stamped, engraved, edged and polished regular metal into something of greater value. (Picture courtesy: Saifabad Mint)

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