Top rated Museums in Kolkata, India to elevate your visit (Updated January, 2024)

Top rated Museums in Kolkata

Experience the best that Kolkata has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 37 places from Museum category.

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The RBI Museum

Museum

👍👍 This is the second RBI museum in the country. I had the opportunity to visit this museum as a part of general public. I found that the displays have been organised into three main galleries. First one -The History of Money explains how economies grew after money replaced the barter system. Various...

4.80 (885 reviews)

The Zs' Precinct

Boutique

👍👍 Today I wish to talk about a #hiddengem in #DoverLane - The Zs' Precinct - where else in Kolkata will you find a #Boutique, #ArtGallery, #ReadingCafe, #HeritageHomeStay & a #ContinentalCafe - all under the same roof run by one man who is extremely passionate about each one of those verticals - talki...

4.80 (36 reviews)

Netaji Bhawan

Historical place

Ancestral home, now a research center & museum, of renowned Indian freedom fighter Netaji Bose.

4.70 (5.1K reviews)

Bose Institute Museum

Museum

😠 Disheartened by unprofessional and tourist hostile behaviour of security and care takers of the museum...absence of majority of the staffs lead to late opening and partial opening of majority of the rooms of the museum. Sad to have poor experience to such an important learning hub.

4.70 (58 reviews)

Victoria Memorial

Museum

Elegant, domed, white marble museum, opened in 1921, housing displays on the history of Kolkata.

4.60 (73.8K reviews)

Jorasanko Thakurbari

Museum

Ancestral home of the historic Tagore family, now a museum spotlighting its members’ lives.

4.60 (12.2K reviews)

Alipore Museum

Museum

👍 Very good place if u want to know the history. Very knowledgeable area. But the committee are not fully ready. They need to work more for smooth visit. Guard, maintaining statues lot to do. Overall good experience. SUGGESTIONS- Don't touch any statue. Visit with your family,

4.60 (5K reviews)

Metcalfe Hall

Museum

👍 Really aesthetic place, very well curated. Capturing all the main aspects of the city of Kolkata, It's history, culture and heritage. The place is beautiful but the maintenance is not. We visited early in the morning and few of the video exhibits were not working. There is no AC, so it was very hot,...

4.60 (2.4K reviews)

Dynamotion Hall

Museum

👍👍 This majestic hall is your one-stop destination for everything related to scientific knowledge. Right from physics to chemistry to medical inventions, the Dynamotion Hall contains a treasure of information for people of all ages. It's probably the most popular hall amongst the several halls inside t...

4.60 (676 reviews)

Kolkata Police Museum

Museum

Traditional venue housing weaponry & artifacts including those dating back to revolutionary times.

4.60 (569 reviews)

Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Museum

Museum

👍👍 Sri Chaitanyadeva Mahaprabhu Museum at Bagbazar. Museum entry fee is ninety bucks. The whole life of Shri Chaitanyadeva of Bhakti movement in India has been made with light and sound. Seeing the extraordinary feeling. The whole museum is eight rooms. And only Sunday is a movie show on the life of S...

4.60 (209 reviews)

Victoria Memorial Queen Gate

Museum

👍👍 One of the important tourist places at Kolkata

4.60 (72 reviews)

Kolkata Police Museum, Library and Cafeteria

Museum

👍👍 It is the second police museum after the one in Amherst Street. It was opened in 2017. No entry fee is required and no photography is allowed inside the museum. Very interesting place. Kids will enjoy. Very informative too. This house once owned by Bhawal family. British took over this house in the...

4.60 (63 reviews)

National Library Museum

Museum

👍👍 Best place for learning all book are available of almost all course.

4.60 (53 reviews)

Indian Museum

Museum

Indian heritage museum with sections on archaeology, art, anthropology and geology, founded in 1814.

4.50 (49.8K reviews)

Birla Industrial & Technological Museum

Technology museum

Museum housed in a historic building with exhibits & demonstrations devoted to science & technology.

4.50 (8.7K reviews)

Durga Museum (Maa Phire Elo)

Museum

👍👍 Must visit Details shared below. Morning- 5:00AM to 10AM Evening- 4:00PM to 7:00PM Nearest Railway Station: Lakegardens Nearest Metro Station:- Rabindra Sarovar Location Rabindra Sarovar Durga Exhibition Museum, Rabindra Sarovar Lake, South Kolkata, West Bengal, India

4.50 (534 reviews)

Calcutta Town Hall

Heritage building

Built in 1813, this Roman Doric-style government structure houses a local-history museum.

4.50 (534 reviews)

Mohan Bagan Atheletes Statues

Museum

👍👍 Located at in between Faria pukur and Khanna more, it is a historical place for Indian football which has also link with the freedom movement. 11 bengali played against a British team in bare footed and achieved something which became a symbolic to the freedom movement.. The national club of India,...

4.50 (186 reviews)

Kolkata GPO Postal Museum

Museum

👍👍 Very interesting place for those who love to know history of postal system.

4.50 (145 reviews)

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