Museums, galleries, planetariums and interpretation centres.
18 places
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A torus of stainless steel and Arabic calligraphy on Sheikh Zayed Road, with immersive floors on space…
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One man's collection, and it is enormous: 40,000 objects from Mughal daggers to a Veiled Rebecca marble…
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A 1555 Portuguese-built palace given to the Kochi raja, holding some of India's finest surviving Hindu…
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The Kanan Devan estate's museum and working factory, where you follow a leaf from plucking to packet…
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A high-altitude zoo with snow leopards and red pandas, sharing a campus with the Himalayan…
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The world's first museum dedicated to the 1947 Partition, built around oral histories, personal objects…
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A restored 18th-century lakeside mansion with period rooms, a turban gallery and the city's best folk…
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One of five Gandhi museums in India, in a 17th-century Nayak palace, holding the blood-stained dhoti he…
Six traditional teak houses assembled by the American who revived Thai silk and then vanished in…
The city's principal museum, in an Indo-Saracenic building of 1922, holding sculpture, miniatures…
Founded in 1814 and the oldest and largest museum in India, with the Bharhut stupa railings, an…
The country's principal collection: Harappan seals, Chola bronzes, Mughal miniatures and the Buddha…
Rajasthan's oldest museum in an Indo-Saracenic hall of 1887, holding carpets, miniatures, arms and an…
India's first aerospace museum, with aircraft you can sit in, a flight simulator and the story of…
Part of the world's largest private residence — an art-deco palace finished in 1943, split today…
The Kochi royal family's 49-building palace complex, now Kerala's largest archaeological museum, in 52…
The Wadiyars' earlier palace, now holding Raja Ravi Varma canvases, Mysore-style gold-leaf paintings…
An 18th-century Travancore palace holding the Gajendra Moksha mural — one of the largest single-panel…