Asutosh 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 (previously Calcutta), India. Established in 1937, it is the first public museum in any University in India.^[1] The university museum is named after Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee who was the Vice-Chancellor of the university for four consecutive two-year terms (1906–1914) and a fifth two-year term (1921–23). The objective of the museum was to collect and preserve specimens of various phases of Indian art with special emphasis on the art of Bengal.^[2]

Notes

↑ "Asutosh Museum of Indian Art". Museum. University of Calcutta. Retrieved 2007-04-05.
↑ Goswami, Niranjan. "Asutosh Museum of Indian Art". Banglapedia. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. Retrieved 2007-04-05.

University of Calcutta

Associated research and training institutes	Bengal Music College Bose Institute Calcutta Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology Carey Institute of Horticulture Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Government College of Art & Craft Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Indian Centre for Space Physics Indian Institute of Astrophysics Indian Institute of Chemical Biology Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management Institute of Development Studies Institute of Jute Technology Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences

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