Popular with research workers, technologists, foreign traders and tourists interested in information about jute and jute fabrics. Collections include different European objects of art and oil paintings. Maintains a small zoo displaying birds and non-carnivorous animals. Municipal Museum Established in 1932. Run by the Corporation of Calcutta.
Section is air-conditioned and has a separate reading room.
Visits arranged by prior permission. Netaji Research Bureau Established in 1961. Collections kept in the ancestral house of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose include personal effects, photographs, letters of Netaji and other documents. The Bureau also sells books written on Netaji. Has a good collection of photographs and documents on India's struggle for freedom.