Things to do in Southeast Bengal, West Bengal
30 places to visit in and around Southeast Bengal, best known first. Tap a place for directions, or let Turkart turn them into a day-by-day plan.
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- 1Fort William, West Bengal
Fort William, officially Vijay Durg, is a fort in Hastings, Calcutta. It was built during the early years of Britain's administration of Bengal.
- 2Marble Palace Zoo
Marble Palace Zoo, which was the first zoo opened in India, also by Raja Rajendra Mullick. It now primarily serves as an aviary, including peacocks, toucans, storks, and cranes.
- 3Marble Palace
Marble Palace is a palatial nineteenth-century mansion in North Kolkata. It is located at 46, Muktaram Babu Street, Kolkata 700007.
- 4Victoria Memorial, Kolkata
The Victoria Memorial is a large marble monument in the Maidan in Central Kolkata, having its entrance on the Queen's Way. It was built between 1906 and 1921 by the British Raj.
- 5Birla Planetarium, Kolkata
The Birla Planetarium in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, is a single-storeyed circular structure designed in the typical Indian style, whose architecture is loosely styled on the Buddhist Stupa at Sanchi.
- 6Indian Museum
The Indian Museum is a grand museum in Central Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is the ninth oldest museum in the world and the oldest, as well as the largest museum in Asia, by size of collection.
- 7State Bank Archives and Museum
The State Bank Archives and Museum is an initiative to document and preserve the history of banking in the Indian subcontinent. The archive and museum opened on 13 May 2007 in the State Bank of India headquarters in Kolkata.
- 8Birla Industrial & Technological Museum
Birla Industrial & Technological Museum is a science museum in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is a unit under National Council of Science Museums, Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
- 9Kolkata Museum of Modern Art
Kolkata Museum of Modern Art is a proposed art museum to be built in New Town, Kolkata.
- 10Rail Museum, Howrah
The Kolkata Rail Museum, Howrah was established in 2006 to display the history and heritage of railways in the eastern part of India with special focus on Howrah railway station.
- 11Asutosh Museum of Indian Art
Asutosh Museum of Indian Art is an art museum located in the main campus of University of Calcutta on College Street, Kolkata, India, on the first and second floors of the Centenary Building.
- 12State Archaeological Museum
State Archaeological Museum, West Bengal in Kolkata, West Bengal, is an archeological museum founded in 1962 and has collections including rare tools of the Early, Middle and the Late Stone Ages from Susunia and other sites, proto-historic antiquities from…
- 13Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda's Ancestral House and Cultural Centre
- 14Hastings Chapel, Kolkata
- 15Lascar War Memorial
- 16Zoological Garden, Alipore
- 17Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
- 18St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata
- 19Prinsep Ghat
- 20Gwalior Monument
- 21St. Thomas Church, Kolkata
- 22Shri Laxminarayan Temple, Kolkata
- 23Outram Ghat
- 24Shaheed Minar, Kolkata
- 25Babu Ghat
- 26Kalighat Temple
- 27Pathrakaliamman Temple
- 28Panioty Fountain
- 29Tipu Sultan Mosque
- 30St. James' Church, Kolkata