Question

Identify the Museum being described below:

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• A. Salarjung Museum
• B. National Museum
• C. Egmore Museum
• D. Indian Museum

Answer 1

The correct option is D

Indian Museum

The Indian Museum is the largest and oldest museum in India and has rare collections of antiques, armour and ornaments, fossils, skeletons, mummies, and Mughal paintings. It was founded by the Asiatic Society of Bengal in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, in 1814.

Recently, the Archaeological Survey of India wrote to the Union Culture Ministry about two invaluable pieces, a 2 BC Yakshi statue and a 3 BC Mauryan lion, at Kolkata’s Indian Museum that had been irreversibly damaged. The ASI said the damage was caused by careless handling.