5 museums you should visit in Chennai

21 May 2020 10:40 AM

The land of cultural pinnacle, beautiful monuments and magnificent scenic beauty, Chennai, one of the four metro cities in India, hosts multiple options to spend weekend to holiday leisure. Besides encompassing beguiling religious abodes, film city, beaches and memorials, the city of Chennai also encloses museums which are distinctive in character. All these museums exhibit antiquities starting from the days of Pallava Kings to later British rulers.

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1. Government State Museum Chennai:

The Government Museum or Madras Museum is a museum of human history and culture
Located in the neighbourhood of Egmore in Chennai, India.
It is the second oldest museum in India after the Indian Museum in Kolkata.
It is comprised of six individual buildings displaying different antiquities exhibited in 46 galleries
It is embraced with an excellent collection of paintings and sculptures reflecting traditional as well as modern style.
It has an exclusive collection of around 2000 Indian bronzes and Amaravathi marbles.
Have a look over the description of the Government Museum to enhance your knowledge about the heritage of Chennai.

A treasure trove of around 3661 antique items Fort St. George
It is a famous museum in Chennai depicting artifacts of different ages of modern Indian history.
Popularly known as the White Town in Indian history this museum has three floors divided into 10 galleries
It also houses many historic buildings and monuments such as the St. Mary’s Church, the oldest Anglican church in India, and popularly known as the ‘Westminster Abbey of the East.
Memoirs from the British rule in India, such as weapons, coins, medals, and uniforms, are preserved in a museum.

Periyar Science and Technology Centre of Chennai is an exquisite spot to be explored by the science geeks.
It was established in memory of famous South Indian revolutionary leader Thanthai Periyar.
Different scientific inventions are explained through the working models.
It has different sections divided into separate galleries named as Life Science Gallery, Energy Gallery, Transport Gallery, Physical Science Gallery and so on.
Fun Mirrors Gallery provides information about practical Science Optics.
This part of the museum makes the visitors aware about the evolution of life.
Anatomy of the animals like elephant and whale are the most attractive element of its exhibition.
Other important sections include Children's Corner, 3D Science Theatre and many more.

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An inseparable part of the Periyar Science and Technology Centre, Birla Planetarium, Chennai is a miniature form of our happening universe.
The activities are shown inside an aluminium dome where more than 35 planetary activities can be seen.
The great industrialist and visionary of India B. M. Birla, it is the most modern planetarium in India.
The exhibition brings life cycle of stars, solar system, comets, and information about and beyond the living planet is found very useful to the kids as well as the students of astronomy and astrophysics.
The cosmic presentations in the planetarium highlight various mysteries of the universe and unfold scientific facts related to the riddles of comets, black holes and dark energy.
There are two other Birla Planetariums in India, viz., the one in Kolkata known as M. P. Birla Planetarium and the other in Hyderabad

The Regional Railway Museum is a railway museum in Chennai, India
It is a promising site built to demonstrate the heritage of Indian Railways.
A must-see spot for the rail-fans visiting Chennai has a good numbers of steam engines used during the rule of British Government in India.
It also hosts different types of train-models, along with the presentation of real exhibits of meter gauge EMU, Nilgiri Mountain Railway, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, and various types of rail engines which are used down the ages.
In the outdoor spaces of the museum near about 40 models of trains are kept on display.
Other must-see exhibits of the museum are models of bogies, track crossings, 3 tier model of trains running in Chennai, images of high-speed trains of different countries around the world and many more.