Fact File
» Timings - 10.00 A.M. To 5.00 P.M.
» Closed on - Thursday & State Government Holiday
» Establishment - 1963
» Address - (A Museum of Bengal Folk Art),
Bratachrigram, P.O. Joka
» Display Objects - Various types of precious scrolls,
paintings (patachitra), Kalighat pat, terracota plaques from temples
stones, wood, brass, bronze, sculpture, wooden painted manuscript
covers, achaeological specimens. figurines, dolls, toys, etc. tribal
folk musical instruments, manuscript.s
Location
Gurusaday Museum is situated 15 km. from the BBD Bagh, on Diamond
Harbour Road.
About the Museum
Collected since 1933 by Gurusaday Datta, the Museum in its present
site came up in 1961. The museum has a small but rich collection of
the folk arts and crafts of Bengal including paintings, embroidered
quilts, dolls and toys, wood crafts, temple terracotas and other
clay objects, stone sculptures, basketry and work in shoal-pith,
ritual potteries and figurines of great variety.
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