This amazing museum is the oldest and the largest multipurpose museum in the whole Asia-Pacific region. The museum has separate Cultural and scientific sections, which is further subdivided into Archeology, Art, Anthropology, Geology, Botany and Zoology sections. Staring from man-made antiques, it’s unbelievable collections include valuable portraits and sculptures, decorative arts, ancient musical instruments, meteorites and so on. You’ll even find mummified bodies and fossils of animals here. These look so lively that, it will remind you of the famous Hollywood movie “Night at the Museum”. If you are with your private guide he will show you around the whole place and answer anything that you need to know. In Bengali the place is known as a “Jadu Ghar”, which means “House of Magic”. This ancient museum was established back in 1814 at the Asiatic Society building in the Park Street area of Kolkata. The museum houses over 100,000 invaluable exhibits, which attract a large number of tourists every day. If you want to know more about the history of this great nation, you must visit the Indian Museum at the very first opportunity.