Museums & Galleries
Heritage
Where the objects went when the sites were excavated.
11 places
Navsari
National Salt Satyagraha Memorial
Fifteen acres at Dandi marking where the Salt March ended on 5 April 1930 and Gandhi broke the British salt monopoly by boiling seawater. It cost about ₹89 crore and opened in 2019: a path lined with statues of the marchers who walked the full distance from Sabarmati, and salt pans worked by solar evaporation, so the act itself is repeated rather than described. It is a memorial rather than a museum, and it lands better if you have been to Sabarmati Ashram first — that is where the walk started.
Anandpur Sahib
Virasat-e-Khalsa Museum
Moshe Safdie's museum, opened in 2011 — a run of sandstone galleries cut into the ridge. Entry is free, it closes on Mondays, and ninety minutes is the minimum walk-through.
Patna
Bihar Museum
A modern museum showcasing Bihar's ancient Mauryan and Buddhist heritage.
Sarnath
Sarnath Archaeological Museum
India's oldest site museum gallery housing the original 3rd-century BCE Ashokan Lion Capital and masterfully carved sandstone Buddha statues.
Sarnath
Sarnath Museum
Home to the original Ashoka Lion Capital, India's national emblem.
Nalanda
Xuanzang Memorial Hall
A memorial to the Chinese monk-scholar who studied at Nalanda.
Statue of Unity (Kevadia)
Statue Viewing Gallery
A gallery at 153 m inside the statue with valley and dam views.
Hemis Monastery
Hemis Heritage Museum
A gallery below the monastery holding thangkas, ritual objects and gilded figures the gompa had in storage. Small, well lit, and easy to miss if you only look at the courtyard.
Jamnagar
Lakhota Palace and Museum
A semicircular fort on an island in Ranmal lake, built in the nineteenth century as famine relief so that people had wages. It is a museum now — Saurashtra pottery, an old armoury — reached by a stone causeway.
Kolkata
Victoria Memorial
A grand white-marble monument and museum set in landscaped gardens.
Kanyakumari Beach
Vivekananda Rock Memorial
An island memorial reached by ferry, with a giant Thiruvalluvar statue alongside.
