I love the dead, their belongings and the things they left behind for all of us to see. In short, I am a museum buff. The geek in me would like to spend all day in a museum browsing through antiques and trying to find the origins of each item on display and how it came to being there. History may be boring, but tracing history can be as interesting as creating one. But it never struck me as a hobby till a friend came up with the idea of listing museums - museums I've visited, museums I wish to see, museums I liked and museums I didn't like so much. The idea is to get to know how many museums are there in this country (and the world) that are still waiting for me to discover them. This list is a work-in-progress, but here's a start:
THE MUSEUMS I'VE VISITED TILL NOW...
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai
- Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
- F D Alpaiwala Museum, Mumbai
- BEST Transport Museum, Mumbai
- RBI Monetary Museum, Mumbai
- Mani Bhavan, Mumbai
- Aga Khan Palace, Pune
- Tribal Cultural Museum, Silvassa
- Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum, Pune
- Maharaja Fatehsingh Gaekwad Museum, Vadodara
- Musuem of Archaeology and Ancient History, M S University, Vadodara
- Baroda Museum and Picture Gallery, Vadodara
- Shankar's International Dolls Museum, New Delhi
- National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum (Crafts Museum), New Delhi
- Tribal Cultural Society, Jamshedpur
- Tata Museum, Jamshedpur
- Indian Museum, Kolkata
- Victoria Memorial, Kolkata
- The Louvre, Paris
- Le Musée des Égouts de Paris or Paris Sewers Museum
- Centre Pompidou, Paris
- The Musée de la Mode et du Textile or Textile Museum, Paris
- National Museum, Male (Maldives)
- Haus der Geschichte (history of the Federal Republic of Germany), Bonn
- Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai
- Swiss Museum of Transport, Lucerne, Switzerland
- Schokoladenmuseum (Chocolate Museum), Cologne
- Colombo Dutch Museum, Colombo
- Kanha Museum, Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh
- National Museum, New Delhi
- Gandhi Ashram, Ahmedabad
- Sardar Patel Memorial, Karamsad, Anand
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